We need, in effect, to make the phantom ‘lock-boxes’ around the trust fund real.
ALAN GREENSPANBut rules cannot substitute for character.
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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Cash is available and we should use that in larger amounts, as is necessary, to solve the problems of the stress of this.
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Improvements in lending practices driven by information technology have enabled lenders to reach out to households with previously unrecognized borrowing capacities.
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The free lunch has still to be invented.
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Although the outlook is clouded by a number of uncertainties, the central tendencies of the projections .. imply continued good economic performance in the United States.
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When trust is lost, a nation’s ability to transact business is palpably undermined.
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If we allow terrorism to undermine our freedom of action, we could reverse at least part of the palpable gains achieved by postwar globalization. It is incumbent upon us not to allow that to happen.
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Protectionism will do little to create jobs and if foreigners retaliate, we will surely lose jobs.
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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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They seem to sense… that gold and economic freedom are inseparable.
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No one has ever eliminated any of that stuff.
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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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Senator, if I seem clear to you, you must have misunderstood me’.
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Was sort of intellectually shocked. Contagion is the critical phenomenon which causes the thing to fall apart.
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Gold still represents the ultimate form of payment in the world.
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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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