The process of innovation is, of course, never ending.
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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Excessive optimism sows the seeds of its own reversal.
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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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Stripped of its academic jargon, the welfare state is nothing more than a mechanism by which governments confiscate the wealth of the productive members of a society to support a wide variety of welfare schemes.
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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 number one problem in today’s generation and economy is the lack of financial literacy.
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Revolutions are something you see only in retrospect.
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This decade is strewn with examples of bright people who thought they built a better mousetrap that could consistently extract abnormal returns from the financial markets.
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The problem is not lack of regulation but unrealistic expectations. What we confront in reality is uncertainty, some of it frighteningly so…
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I think that real pressure is going to occur not by the initiation by the Federal Reserve, but by the markets themselves.
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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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History has not dealt kindly with the aftermath of protracted periods of low risk premiums.
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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.
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Without the triggers, that tax cut is irreponsible fiscal policy. Eventually, I think that will be the consensus view.
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An almost hysterical antagonism toward the gold standard is one issue which unites statists of all persuasions.
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Greenspan, who knew so much more than most, knew far less than most supposed.
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