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Anything that we can do to raise personal savings is very much in the interest of this country.

Alan Greenspan

Without the triggers, that tax cut is irreponsible fiscal policy. Eventually, I think that will be the consensus view.
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Consensus Cut Fiscal Irresponsible Policy Tax Trigger View
I was raising the question on the side with Governor Mullins of what would happen if the Treasury sold a little gold in this market.
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Gold Governor Happen Little Market Question Raise Treasury
Regulation – which is based on force and fear – undermines the moral base of business dealings. It becomes cheaper to bribe a building inspector than to meet his standards of construction. Protection of the consumer by regulation is thus illusory.
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Base Business Deal Fear Force Regulation Undermine
There is no safe store of value. Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the hidden confiscation of wealth.
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Confiscation Deficit Hidden Safe Scheme Spend Store Value Wealth
We are in the midst of a once-in-a-century credit tsunami. Central banks and governments are being required to take unprecedented measures.
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Being Central Century Government Midst Once REquired Tsunami
The recent period has been marked by a transformation to an economy that is more productive as competitive forces become increasingly intense and new technologies raise the efficiency of our businesses…
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Business Competitive Economy Force Mark More Period Productive Recent Technology Transformation
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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Already Economic Evidence Expansion Increasingly Influence Recent Suggest Underway Well
We can guarantee cash benefits as far out and at whatever size you like, but we cannot guarantee their purchasing power.
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Benefit Cash Guarantee Like Power Purchase
Without calling the overall national issue a bubble, it’s pretty clear that it’s an unsustainable underlying pattern.
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Buddle Call Clear Issue National Overall Pattern Pretty Unsustainable Without
I didn’t believe in absolutes, moral or otherwise. If I couldn’t prove a proposition with facts and figures, it was without merit.
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Absolute Believe Fact Figure Moral Otherwise Proposition
It signals problems with respect to currency markets. Central banks should pay attention to it.
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Attention Bank Central Currency Market Problem Respect Signal
It is decidedly not true that “nice guys finish last,” as that highly original American baseball philosopher, Leo Durocher, was alleged to have said.
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Alleged Baseball Country Decide Finish Guy Highly Original Philosopher True
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
Productivity is notoriously difficult to predict.
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Difficult Notorious Predict Productivity
But how do we know when irrational exuberance has unduly escalated asset values, which then become subject to unexpected and prolonged contractions as they have in Japan over the past decade?
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Country Decade Escalate Irrational Past Subject
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
ALAN GREENSPAN

Anything Day Expect Must Reduce Say Talk

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