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The number of mistakes I have made are just awesome. There is no number large enough to account for that.

Alan Greenspan

It 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.
ALAN GREENSPAN

Boost Finance Free Income Increase Interest Keep Lower Productive Rate Real Saving
Now, I only play very occasionally, and in fact, more piano than clarinet or sax.
ALAN GREENSPAN

Clarinet Fact More Occasionally Pay Piano Sax
No matter how skillful the trading scheme, over the long haul, abnormal returns are sustained only through abnormal exposure to risk.
ALAN GREENSPAN

Abnormal Exposure Haul Long Matter No Return Scheme Skillful Sustain Trade
These days, even out of office, I still read economic reports.
ALAN GREENSPAN

Day Economic Office Out Read Report
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.
ALAN GREENSPAN

Central Cloud Country Number Outlook Projection Tendency Uncertain
Was sort of intellectually shocked. Contagion is the critical phenomenon which causes the thing to fall apart.
ALAN GREENSPAN

Apart Contagion Critical Fall Intellectual Phenomenon Shock Sort
The only sustainable way to increase demand for vacant houses is to spur the formation of new households. Admitting more skilled immigrants, who tend to earn enough to buy homes, would accomplish that while paying other dividends to the U.S. economy.
ALAN GREENSPAN

Formation House Household Increase New Only Sustainable
If I’ve made myself clear, I’ve misspoken.
ALAN GREENSPAN

Clear Made Misspken Myself
I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil.
ALAN GREENSPAN

Acknowledge Everyone Inconvenient Know Oil Political Saddened
I’m a better economist than I was a sax player.
ALAN GREENSPAN

Better Economist Player
I don’t know where the stock market is going, but I will say this, that if it continues higher, this will do more to stimulate the economy than anything we’ve been talking about today or anything anybody else was talking about.
ALAN GREENSPAN

Continue Go Higher Market More Stock
Regulation – which is based on force and fear – undermines the moral base of business dealings. It becomes cheaper to bribe a building inspector than to meet his standards of construction. Protection of the consumer by regulation is thus illusory.
ALAN GREENSPAN

Base Business Deal Fear Force Regulation Undermine
In the process we have created [a] privileged elite whose incomes are being supported at non-competitively high levels by immigration quotas on skilled professionals.
ALAN GREENSPAN

Competitively Immigration Income Level Process Profession Quota Support
The companies could hire the educated workers they need. And those workers would compete with high-income people, driving more income equality.
ALAN GREENSPAN

Equally High Income People Drive Those Workers
Whatever you tax you get less of.
ALAN GREENSPAN

Economy Less Tax
Then fear hits, and it comes down very sharply. When I started to look at that.
ALAN GREENSPAN

Come Down Fear Hit Look Sharply Start That

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