And the percentage changes in wage rates would be the same for all job grades.
ALAN GREENSPANAny informed borrower is simply less vulnerable to fraud and abuse.
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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Given our inevitably incomplete knowledge about key structural aspects of our ever-changing economy and the sometimes asymmetric costs or benefits of particular outcomes, a central bank.
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Was sort of intellectually shocked. Contagion is the critical phenomenon which causes the thing to fall apart.
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I cannot conceive of a politically feasible solution to this problem which will overdo cutting the deficit, where overdoing means harming the economy. It might be technically possible, but it is not realistic.
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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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It keeps interest rates lower than they otherwise would be and frees savings to finance increases in the capital stock, thereby boosting productivity and real incomes.
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I’ve been in and out of Wall Street since 1949, and I’ve never seen the type of animosity between government and Wall Street. And I’m not sure where it comes from, but I suspect it’s got to do with a general schism in this society which is really becoming ever more destructive.
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I have long argued that paying down the national debt is beneficial for the economy.
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Fiat money in extremis is accepted by nobody. Gold is always accepted.
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Everyone has one. You have to, to exist you need an ideology. The question is whether it is accurate or not.
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Clearly, sustained low inflation implies less uncertainty about the future, and lower risk premiums imply higher prices of stocks and other earning assets.
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I must say, I never expected to see the day where I would be talking about anything other than reducing the debt, I’m running into the tyranny of zero, which is where you can’t reduce (the debt) any more
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Even though some down payments are borrowed, it would take a large, and historically most unusual, fall in home prices to wipe out a significant part of home equity.
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Gold, unlike all other commodities, is a currency…and the major thrust in the demand for gold is not for jewelry.
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We need, in effect, to make the phantom ‘lock-boxes’ around the trust fund real.
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No matter how skillful the trading scheme, over the long haul, abnormal returns are sustained only through abnormal exposure to risk.
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We as central bankers need not be concerned if a collapsing financial asset bubble does not threaten to impair the real economy, its production, jobs and price stability.
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Regulation of derivatives transactions that are privately negotiated by professionals is unnecessary.
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Political decisions are never random and will always lose out to innovative alternatives.
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I’m a plain soap kind of guy.
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Developing protectionism regarding trade and our reluctance to place fiscal policy on a more sustainable path are threatening what may well be our most valued policy asset.
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Amateurs want to be right. Professionals want to make money.
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There is no evidence that the business cycle has been repealed.
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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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The recent evidence increasingly suggests that an economic expansion is already well under way, although an array of influences unique to this business cycle seems likely to moderate its speed.
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Well, you probably will always believe there should be laws against fraud, and I don’t think there is any need for a law against fraud.
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If you get beyond the political rhetoric [and assembled a group to solve Social Security] it would take them 15 minutes. It would take them 15 minutes only because 10 minutes was used for pleasantries.
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