I do not deny that many appear to have succeeded in a material way by cutting corners and by manipulating associates, both in their professional and in their personal lives.
ALAN GREENSPANRegulation of derivatives transactions that are privately negotiated by professionals is unnecessary.
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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We ought to be opening up our borders to skilled labour from all parts of the world because [the state of the world is as follows: ].
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No matter how skillful the trading scheme, over the long haul, abnormal returns are sustained only through abnormal exposure to risk.
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Fiat money in extremis is accepted by nobody. Gold is always accepted.
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Significantly opening up immigration to skilled workers solves two problems.
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Political decisions are never random and will always lose out to innovative alternatives.
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In general, corruption tends to exist whenever governments have favors to extend, or something to sell.
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Excessive optimism sows the seeds of its own reversal.
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Many of those who purchased their residence more than a year ago have equity buffers in their homes adequate to withstand any price decline other than a very deep one.
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[Republicans] swapped principle for power. They ended up with neither. They deserved to lose.
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There are no easy choices. Easy choices are long gone.
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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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The companies could hire the educated workers they need. And those workers would compete with high-income people, driving more income equality.
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The economy is turning, and credit comes in with a lag, .. To the extent that a number of small firms are finding it difficult to get the credit they need at a price they can afford, that’s likely to change for the better.
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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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Yet deregulation set the stage for an enormous wave of creative destruction in the 1980s.
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