The process of innovation is, of course, never ending.
ALAN GREENSPANI believe that the general growth in large [financial] institutions have occurred in the context of an underlying structure of markets in which many of the larger risks are dramatically — I should say, fully — hedged.
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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Many of those who purchased their residence more than a year ago have equity buffers in their homes adequate to withstand any price decline other than a very deep one.
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I have long argued that paying down the national debt is beneficial for the economy.
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How do we know when irrational exuberance has unduly escalated asset values?
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The number one problem in today’s generation and economy is the lack of financial literacy.
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We can see that in the inverse relationship exhibited by price/earnings ratios and the rate of inflation in the past.
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It has been my experience that competency in mathematics, both in numerical manipulations and in understanding its conceptual foundations.
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Fear and euphoria are dominant forces, and fear is many multiples the size of euphoria. Bubbles go up very slowly as euphoria builds.
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I cannot conceive of a politically feasible solution to this problem which will overdo cutting the deficit, where overdoing means harming the economy. It might be technically possible, but it is not realistic.
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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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If I seem unduly clear to you, you must have misunderstood what I said.
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We cannot rule out a situation in which a preemptive policy tightening becomes necessary.
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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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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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…our market system depends critically on trust-trust in the word of our colleagues and trust in the word of those with whom we do business.
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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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