If we were to do that we would increase the supply of skilled workers that our schools have been unable to create and as a consequence of that we would lower the average wage of skills and reduce the degree of income inequality in this country.
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
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I think that real pressure is going to occur not by the initiation by the Federal Reserve, but by the markets themselves.
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Enhances a person’s ability to handle the more ambiguous and qualitative relationships that dominate our day-to-day financial decision-making
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The problem is not lack of regulation but unrealistic expectations. What we confront in reality is uncertainty, some of it frighteningly so…
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It’s not for anything other than an escape from what is perceived to be a fiat money system, paper money, that seems to be deteriorating.
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I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil.
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No one has ever eliminated any of that stuff.
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While these tendencies were no doubt in train in the “old,” pre-1990s economy, they accelerated over the past decade as a number of technologies with their roots in the cumulative innovations of the past half-century began to yield dramatic economic returns.
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American and British authorities were also concerned about violence in an area that harbors a resource indispensable for the functioning of the word economy.
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This decade is strewn with examples of bright people who thought they built a better mousetrap that could consistently extract abnormal returns from the financial markets.
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The economy is turning, and credit comes in with a lag, .. To the extent that a number of small firms are finding it difficult to get the credit they need at a price they can afford, that’s likely to change for the better.
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They then need to reach a judgment about the probabilities, costs, and benefits of the various possible outcomes under alternative choices for policy.
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Derivatives have permitted the unbundling of financial risks.
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Senator, we are groping for understanding, the knowledge you assume I possess doesn’t exist’.
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Senator, if I seem clear to you, you must have misunderstood me’.
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Need to consider not only the most likely future path for the economy but also the distribution of possible outcomes about that path.
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