Greenspan, who knew so much more than most, knew far less than most supposed.
ALAN GREENSPANIt 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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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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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 we are dealing with psychology, then the thermometers one uses to measure it have an effect.
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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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The companies could hire the educated workers they need. And those workers would compete with high-income people, driving more income equality.
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Derivatives have permitted the unbundling of financial risks.
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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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We ought to be opening up our borders to skilled labour from all parts of the world because [the state of the world is as follows: ].
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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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Gold stands in the way of this insidious process. It stands as a protector of property rights.
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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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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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Since I’ve become a central banker, I’ve learned to mumble with great incoherence.
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It is regrettably the way human nature functions, whether we like it or not. What successful economies do is keep it to a minimum.
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It’s not for anything other than an escape from what is perceived to be a fiat money system, paper money, that seems to be deteriorating.
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