Political decisions are never random and will always lose out to innovative alternatives.
ALAN GREENSPANAny informed borrower is simply less vulnerable to fraud and abuse.
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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Regulation of derivatives transactions that are privately negotiated by professionals is unnecessary.
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The guiding purpose of the government regulator is to prevent rather than to create something.
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These days, even out of office, I still read economic reports.
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I have found no greater satisfaction than achieving success through honest dealing and strict adherence to the view that, for you to gain, those you deal with should gain as well.
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The number one problem in today’s generation and economy is the lack of financial literacy.
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All taxes are a drag on economic growth. It’s only a question of degree.
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But rules cannot substitute for character.
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The only sustainable way to increase demand for vacant houses is to spur the formation of new households. Admitting more skilled immigrants, who tend to earn enough to buy homes, would accomplish that while paying other dividends to the U.S. economy.
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I have one other issue I’d like to throw on the table. I hesitate to do it, but let me tell you some of the issues that are involved here.
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The process of innovation is, of course, never ending.
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Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the ‘hidden’ confiscation of wealth.
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The need for values is inbred. Their content is not.
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They seem to sense… that gold and economic freedom are inseparable.
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By far the most significant event in finance during the past decade has been the extraordinary development and expansion of financial derivatives.
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There is nothing to guarantee the superior judgment, knowledge, and integrity of an inspector or a bureaucrat-and the deadly consequences of entrusting him with arbitrary power are obvious.
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