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Alan Greenspan

The more flexible an economy, the greater its ability to self-correct in response to inevitable, often unanticipated, disturbances and thus to contain the size and consequences of cyclical imbalances.
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Ability Correct Economy Flexible Greater Inevitable More Response Self Unanticipated
You can’t have the capitalist system if an increasing number of people think it is unjust.
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Capitalist Increase Number People System Unjust
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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Cannot Conceive Cut Deficit Economy Harm Overdo Overdue Political Realistic Solution
Credit-default swaps, I think, have serious problems associated with them.
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Associate Credit Default Problem Serious Swap
The Iraq War is largely about oil.
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Country Largely Oil War
Cash is available and we should use that in larger amounts, as is necessary, to solve the problems of the stress of this.
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Amount Available Cash Necessary Problem Should Solve Stress
To succeed, you will soon learn, as I did, the importance of a solid foundation in the basics of education – literacy, both verbal and numerical, and communication skills.
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Basic Communication Education Foundation Importance Learn Solid Soon Succeed
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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Hesitate Issue Other Some Table Throw
I’ve been in and out of Wall Street since 1949, and I’ve never seen the type of animosity between government and Wall Street. And I’m not sure where it comes from, but I suspect it’s got to do with a general schism in this society which is really becoming ever more destructive.
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Animosity Between Descriptive E Even Government More Out Since Street Suspect Type Wall
I must say, I never expected to see the day where I would be talking about anything other than reducing the debt, I’m running into the tyranny of zero, which is where you can’t reduce (the debt) any more
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Anything Day Expect Must Reduce Say Talk
It’s a bubble. It has to have intrinsic value. You have to really stretch your imagination to infer what the intrinsic value of Bitcoin is. I haven’t been able to do it. Maybe somebody else can.
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Bitcoin Blue Bubble Imagination Intrinsic Really Stretch
The need for values is inbred. Their content is not.
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Content Inbred Need Value
But material success is possible in this world and far more satisfying when it comes without exploiting others.
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Come Exploit Material Other Possible Satisfy Success
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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Distortion Economy Experience Imbalance Local National Price Seem Severe Significant
There’s an interesting question here because if the gold price broke in that context, the thermometer would not be just a measuring tool. It would basically affect the underlying psychology.
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Context Mean Price Psychology Thermometer Underlying
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.
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Capital Composition Force Meshed Need Oversimplification Risk Skill Stock Work

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