We cannot rule out a situation in which a preemptive policy tightening becomes necessary.
ALAN GREENSPANI think that real pressure is going to occur not by the initiation by the Federal Reserve, but by the markets themselves.
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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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.
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Rules cannot take the place of character.
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The probability of ten consecutive heads is 0.1 percent; thus, when you have millions of coin tossers, or investors, in the end there will be thousands of very successful practitioners of coin tossing, or stock picking.
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Remember what we’re looking at. Gold is a currency. It is still, by all evidence, a premier currency, that no fiat currency, including the dollar, can match.
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There are no easy choices. Easy choices are long gone.
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An almost hysterical antagonism toward the gold standard is one issue which unites statists of all persuasions.
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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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History demonstrates that participants in financial markets are susceptible to waves of optimism.
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All taxes are a drag on economic growth. It’s only a question of degree.
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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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Without the triggers, that tax cut is irreponsible fiscal policy. Eventually, I think that will be the consensus view.
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If one grasps this, one has no difficulty in understanding the statists’ antagonism toward the gold standard.
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So there is no reason to suspect that the actual process of boosting rates would be any different.
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The worst have failed; investors no longer fund them and are not likely to in the future.
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Indeed, better risk management may be the only truly necessary element of success in banking.
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