I guess I should warn you, if I turn out to be particularly clear, you’ve probably misunderstood what I’ve said.
ALAN GREENSPANThe number one problem in today’s generation and economy is the lack of financial literacy.
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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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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We cannot rule out a situation in which a preemptive policy tightening becomes necessary.
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Capitalism is based on self-interest and self-esteem; it holds integrity and trustworthiness as cardinal virtues and makes them pay off in the marketplace, thus demanding that men survive by means of virtue, not vices.
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The United States can pay any debt it has because we can always print money to do that. So there is zero probability of default.
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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.
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If you think you understand what I am saying you do not understand what I am saying.
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If I seem unduly clear to you, you must have misunderstood what I said.
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Market financed withdrawals of home equity in recent years.
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Unfortunately, Senator, nobody knows where the next innovative idea is coming from.
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I was a fairly good amateur musician, and I was an average professional. But the one thing I saw was that the big band business was fading.
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Institutions of the newer participants in global finance had not been tested, until recently…recent crisis have underscored certain financial structure vulnerabilities that are not readily assuaged in the short run.
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What an ideology is is a conceptual framework with the way people deal with reality.
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A decline in the national housing price level would need to be substantial to trigger a significant rise in foreclosures, because the vast majority of homeowners have built up substantial equity in their homes despite large mortgage.
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You can’t have the capitalist system if an increasing number of people think it is unjust.
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Since I’ve become a central banker, I’ve learned to mumble with great incoherence.
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