And the percentage changes in wage rates would be the same for all job grades.
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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The only effective regulation lies in the propensity of customers to choose alternatives, of investors to move their funds elsewhere and of labour to acquire technical skills’.
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We may be in a rapidly evolving international financial system with all the bells and whistles of the so-called new economy. But the old-economy rules of prudence are as formidable as ever. We violate them at our own peril.
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History cannot be reduced to a set of statistics and probabilities.
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Protectionism will do little to create jobs and if foreigners retaliate, we will surely lose jobs.
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But how do we know when irrational exuberance has unduly escalated asset values, which then become subject to unexpected and prolonged contractions as they have in Japan over the past decade?
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If I seem unduly clear to you, you must have misunderstood what I said.
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The guiding purpose of the government regulator is to prevent rather than to create something.
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In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store of value.
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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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There is no evidence that the business cycle has been repealed.
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The more flexible an economy, the greater its ability to self-correct in response to inevitable, often unanticipated, disturbances and thus to contain the size and consequences of cyclical imbalances.
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This is the reason that history has not dealt kindly with the aftermath of protracted periods of low risk premiums.
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So there is no reason to suspect that the actual process of boosting rates would be any different.
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Such caution seems especially warranted with regard to the sharp rise in equity prices during the past two years. These gains have obviously raised questions of sustainability.
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History has not dealt kindly with the aftermath of protracted periods of low risk premiums.
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