Senator, we are groping for understanding, the knowledge you assume I possess doesn’t exist’.
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 worst have failed; investors no longer fund them and are not likely to in the future.
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We are in the midst of a once-in-a-century credit tsunami. Central banks and governments are being required to take unprecedented measures.
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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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History cannot be reduced to a set of statistics and probabilities.
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The increased flexibility of our economy, which has fostered our extraordinary resilience to shocks.
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It is decidedly not true that “nice guys finish last,” as that highly original American baseball philosopher, Leo Durocher, was alleged to have said.
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I’m always amazed that my wife can handle different subjects – one day politics, the next day foreign policy.
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The gut-feel of the 55-year old trader is more important than the mathematical elegance of the 25-year old genius.
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The arts develop skills and habits of mind that are important for workers in the new economy of ideas.
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The guiding purpose of the government regulator is to prevent rather than to create something.
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I think that real pressure is going to occur not by the initiation by the Federal Reserve, but by the markets themselves.
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I love to play tennis and golf, listen to music, watch baseball and root for the Redskins.
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Gold still represents the ultimate form of payment in the world.
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While these tendencies were no doubt in train in the “old,” pre-1990s economy, they accelerated over the past decade as a number of technologies with their roots in the cumulative innovations of the past half-century began to yield dramatic economic returns.
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The current financial crisis in the US is likely to be judged in retrospect as the most wrenching since the end of the Second World War.
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