Credit-default swaps, I think, have serious problems associated with them.
ALAN GREENSPANWe can guarantee cash benefits as far out and at whatever size you like, but we cannot guarantee their purchasing power.
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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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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Was sort of intellectually shocked. Contagion is the critical phenomenon which causes the thing to fall apart.
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Gold stands in the way of this insidious process. It stands as a protector of property rights.
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I came to a stark realization: chronic surpluses could be almost as destabilizing as chronic deficits.
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If I seem unduly clear to you, you must have misunderstood what I said.
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The only effective regulation lies in the propensity of customers to choose alternatives, of investors to move their funds elsewhere and of labour to acquire technical skills’.
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These days, even out of office, I still read economic reports.
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Senator, we are groping for understanding, the knowledge you assume I possess doesn’t exist’.
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Any informed borrower is simply less vulnerable to fraud and abuse.
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The tub helps me relax, and it’s a great place to read.
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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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Political decisions are never random and will always lose out to innovative alternatives.
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If we were to do that we would increase the supply of skilled workers that our schools have been unable to create and as a consequence of that we would lower the average wage of skills and reduce the degree of income inequality in this country.
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While these tendencies were no doubt in train in the “old,” pre-1990s economy, they accelerated over the past decade as a number of technologies with their roots in the cumulative innovations of the past half-century began to yield dramatic economic returns.
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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.
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