At the risk of some oversimplification, if the skill composition of our work force meshed fully with the needs of our increasingly complex capital-stock, wage-skill differentials would be stable.
ALAN GREENSPANI 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.
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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While local economies may experience significant price imbalances, a national severe price distortion seems most unlikely in the United States, given its size and diversity.
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It’s hard to overemphasize how important Ford’s deregulation was. True, most of the benefits took years to unfold-rail freight rates, for example hardly budged at first.
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I have one other issue I’d like to throw on the table. I hesitate to do it, but let me tell you some of the issues that are involved here.
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I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil.
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I’ve always argued that this country has benefited immensely from the fact that we draw people from all over the world.
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The number of mistakes I have made are just awesome. There is no number large enough to account for that.
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Without calling the overall national issue a bubble, it’s pretty clear that it’s an unsustainable underlying pattern.
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The increased flexibility of our economy, which has fostered our extraordinary resilience to shocks.
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Crony capitalism is essentially a condition in which… public officials are giving favours to people in the private sector in payment of political favours.
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As long as we issue fiat currency, I see no alternative to a legal tender law.
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But material success is possible in this world and far more satisfying when it comes without exploiting others.
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What an ideology is is a conceptual framework with the way people deal with reality.
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Excessive optimism shows the seeds of its own reversal in the form of imbalances that tend to grow over time.
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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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American consumers might benefit if lenders provided greater mortgage product alternatives to the traditional fixed-rate mortgage.
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