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Regulation of derivatives transactions that are privately negotiated by professionals is unnecessary.

Alan Greenspan

We need, in effect, to make the phantom ‘lock-boxes’ around the trust fund real.
ALAN GREENSPAN

Box Effect Fund Lock Make Need Phantom Real Trust
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.
ALAN GREENSPAN

Consequence Country Degree Income Reduce Skill Supply Unable Wage Work
We may be in a rapidly evolving international financial system with all the bells and whistles of the so-called new economy. But the old-economy rules of prudence are as formidable as ever. We violate them at our own peril.
ALAN GREENSPAN

Bell Call Economy Evolve Financial International Rapid System Whistle
It signals problems with respect to currency markets. Central banks should pay attention to it.
ALAN GREENSPAN

Attention Bank Central Currency Market Problem Respect Signal
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.
ALAN GREENSPAN

Adequate Ago Buffer Decline Deep Home One Piece Purchase Residence Year
It keeps interest rates lower than they otherwise would be and frees savings to finance increases in the capital stock, thereby boosting productivity and real incomes.
ALAN GREENSPAN

Boost Finance Free Income Increase Interest Keep Lower Productive Rate Real Saving
Since I’ve become a central banker, I’ve learned to mumble with great incoherence.
ALAN GREENSPAN

Banker Become Central Incoherence Member
I don’t know where the stock market is going, but I will say this, that if it continues higher, this will do more to stimulate the economy than anything we’ve been talking about today or anything anybody else was talking about.
ALAN GREENSPAN

Continue Go Higher Market More Stock
We as central bankers need not be concerned if a collapsing financial asset bubble does not threaten to impair the real economy, its production, jobs and price stability.
ALAN GREENSPAN

Asset Banker Bubble Central Collapse Concern Do Economy Financial Threaten
They seem to sense… that gold and economic freedom are inseparable.
ALAN GREENSPAN

Economic Freedom Gold Inseparable See Sense
I love facts and figures. It’s like following a detective story, piecing together what’s going on in the economy.
ALAN GREENSPAN

Detective Economy Fact Follow Love Piece Story Together
Need to consider not only the most likely future path for the economy but also the distribution of possible outcomes about that path.
ALAN GREENSPAN

Consider Distribution Economy Future Likely Outcome Path Possible
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.
ALAN GREENSPAN

Better Built Decade Example Financial Market Mousetrap People
Political decisions are never random and will always lose out to innovative alternatives.
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Alternative Decision Innovative Lose Political Random
The recent evidence increasingly suggests that an economic expansion is already well under way, although an array of influences unique to this business cycle seems likely to moderate its speed.
ALAN GREENSPAN

Already Economic Evidence Expansion Increasingly Influence Recent Suggest Underway Well
By far the most significant event in finance during the past decade has been the extraordinary development and expansion of financial derivatives.
ALAN GREENSPAN

Decade Development During Event Expansion Extraordinary Far Finance Most Significant

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