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Revolutions are something you see only in retrospect.

Alan Greenspan

I was a good amateur but only an average professional. I soon realized that there was a limit to how far I could rise in the music business, so I left the band and enrolled at New York University.
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Amateur Average Business Country Enroll Good Limit Professional Realize Soon
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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Ability Correct Economy Flexible Greater Inevitable More Response Self Unanticipated
Unfortunately, Senator, nobody knows where the next innovative idea is coming from.
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Come Idea Innovative Nobody Senator Unfortunately
The recent evidence increasingly suggests that an economic expansion is already well under way, although an array of influences unique to this business cycle seems likely to moderate its speed.
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Already Economic Evidence Expansion Increasingly Influence Recent Suggest Underway Well
The probability of ten consecutive heads is 0.1 percent; thus, when you have millions of coin tossers, or investors, in the end there will be thousands of very successful practitioners of coin tossing, or stock picking.
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Coin Consecutive Head Investor Million Percent Pick Probably Stock Ten Tosser
Some succeed for a time. But while there may occasionally be mis-configurations among market prices that allow abnormal returns, they do not persist.
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Among Configuration Market Occasionally Price Priest Some Succeed
People dont realize that we cannot forecast the future. What we can do is have probabilities of what causes what, but thats as far as we go. And Ive had a very successful career as a forecaster, starting in 1948 forward.
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Cannot Cause Far Forecast Future Go People Realize Probability
The need for values is inbred. Their content is not.
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Content Inbred Need Value
I must say, I never expected to see the day where I would be talking about anything other than reducing the debt, I’m running into the tyranny of zero, which is where you can’t reduce (the debt) any more
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Anything Day Expect Must Reduce Say Talk
The worst have failed; investors no longer fund them and are not likely to in the future.
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Fail Future Investor Likely Longer Worst
Fear and euphoria are dominant forces, and fear is many multiples the size of euphoria. Bubbles go up very slowly as euphoria builds.
ALAN GREENSPAN

Dominant Euphoria Fear Force Many Multiply Size
Before I met Ayn Rand, I was a logical positivist, and accordingly,
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Accordingly Before Logical Met People Positivist
Any onset of increased investor caution elevates risk premiums and, as a consequence, lowers asset values and promotes the liquidation of the debt that supported higher asset prices.
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Asset Caution Consequence Debt Elevate Increase Investor Lowe Onset Premium Price Risk Value
Without calling the overall national issue a bubble, it’s pretty clear that it’s an unsustainable underlying pattern.
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Buddle Call Clear Issue National Overall Pattern Pretty Unsustainable Without
If we are to remain preeminent in transforming knowledge into economic value, America’s system of higher education must remain the world’s leader in generating scientific and technological breakthrough, and in meeting the challenge to educate workers.
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Economic Knowledge Preeminent Remain Transform Value
If you get beyond the political rhetoric [and assembled a group to solve Social Security] it would take them 15 minutes. It would take them 15 minutes only because 10 minutes was used for pleasantries.
ALAN GREENSPAN

Group Minute Pleasantries Political Rhetoric Security Solve

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