Credit-default swaps, I think, have serious problems associated with them.
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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Without calling the overall national issue a bubble, it’s pretty clear that it’s an unsustainable underlying pattern.
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Political decisions are never random and will always lose out to innovative alternatives.
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And the percentage changes in wage rates would be the same for all job grades.
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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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The free lunch has still to be invented.
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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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History has not dealt kindly with the aftermath of protracted periods of low risk premiums.
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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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If one grasps this, one has no difficulty in understanding the statists’ antagonism toward the gold standard.
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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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The guiding purpose of the government regulator is to prevent rather than to create something.
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American consumers might benefit if lenders provided greater mortgage product alternatives to the traditional fixed-rate mortgage.
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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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If prices go down, we will have problems – problems in the sense of spillover to other areas.
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I guess I should warn you, if I turn out to be particularly clear, you’ve probably misunderstood what I’ve said.
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