Skilled shortages in America exist because we are shielding our skilled labor force from world competition. [Visa quotas] have been substituted for the wage pricing mechanism.
ALAN GREENSPANThe gut-feel of the 55-year old trader is more important than the mathematical elegance of the 25-year old genius.
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
-
-
I believe that the general growth in large [financial] institutions have occurred in the context of an underlying structure of markets in which many of the larger risks are dramatically — I should say, fully — hedged.
ALAN GREENSPAN -
I’m not denying that monopolies are terrible things, but I am denying that it is readily easy to resolve them through legislation of that nature.
ALAN GREENSPAN -
In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation.
ALAN GREENSPAN -
What an ideology is is a conceptual framework with the way people deal with reality.
ALAN GREENSPAN -
But rules cannot substitute for character.
ALAN GREENSPAN -
Gold still represents the ultimate form of payment in the world.
ALAN GREENSPAN -
Regulation of derivatives transactions that are privately negotiated by professionals is unnecessary.
ALAN GREENSPAN -
The need for values is inbred. Their content is not.
ALAN GREENSPAN -
It is this superlatively moral system that the welfare statists propose to improve upon by means of preventative law, snooping bureaucrats, and the chronic goad of fear.
ALAN GREENSPAN -
Productivity is notoriously difficult to predict.
ALAN GREENSPAN -
…our market system depends critically on trust-trust in the word of our colleagues and trust in the word of those with whom we do business.
ALAN GREENSPAN -
The number one problem in today’s generation and economy is the lack of financial literacy.
ALAN GREENSPAN -
How do we know when irrational exuberance has unduly escalated asset values?
ALAN GREENSPAN -
I’m a better economist than I was a sax player.
ALAN GREENSPAN -
Those of us who have looked to the self-interest of lending institutions to protect shareholders’ equity are in a state of shocked disbelief.
ALAN GREENSPAN