The increased flexibility of our economy, which has fostered our extraordinary resilience to shocks.
ALAN GREENSPANThe process of innovation is, of course, never ending.
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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All taxes are a drag on economic growth. It’s only a question of degree.
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The free lunch has still to be invented.
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Anything that we can do to raise personal savings is very much in the interest of this country.
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I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil.
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What we have found over the years in the marketplace is that derivatives have been an extraordinarily useful vehicle to transfer risk from those who shouldn’t be taking it to those who are willing to and are capable of doing so.
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Yet deregulation set the stage for an enormous wave of creative destruction in the 1980s.
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I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil.
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These days, even out of office, I still read economic reports.
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The current financial crisis in the US is likely to be judged in retrospect as the most wrenching since the end of the Second World War.
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Then fear hits, and it comes down very sharply. When I started to look at that.
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A decline in the national housing price level would need to be substantial to trigger a significant rise in foreclosures, because the vast majority of homeowners have built up substantial equity in their homes despite large mortgage.
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Without calling the overall national issue a bubble, it’s pretty clear that it’s an unsustainable underlying pattern.
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The Iraq War is largely about oil.
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Greenspan, who knew so much more than most, knew far less than most supposed.
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I made a mistake in presuming that the self-interests of organisations, specifically banks and others, were such that they were best capable of protecting their own shareholders and their equity in the firms.
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