Rules cannot take the place of character.
ALAN GREENSPANAnything that we can do to raise personal savings is very much in the interest of this country.
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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It signals problems with respect to currency markets. Central banks should pay attention to it.
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Institutions of the newer participants in global finance had not been tested, until recently…recent crisis have underscored certain financial structure vulnerabilities that are not readily assuaged in the short run.
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It has been my experience that competency in mathematics, both in numerical manipulations and in understanding its conceptual foundations.
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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.
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Some succeed for a time. But while there may occasionally be mis-configurations among market prices that allow abnormal returns, they do not persist.
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I guess I should warn you, if I turn out to be particularly clear, you’ve probably misunderstood what I’ve said.
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Senator, we are groping for understanding, the knowledge you assume I possess doesn’t exist’.
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Market financed withdrawals of home equity in recent years.
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If I seem unduly clear to you, you must have misunderstood what I said.
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Anyone willing to do what is required to become president of the United States is thereby barred from taking that office. I’m only half joking
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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.
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It is regrettably the way human nature functions, whether we like it or not. What successful economies do is keep it to a minimum.
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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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The free lunch has still to be invented.
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Regulation of derivatives transactions that are privately negotiated by professionals is unnecessary.
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