If I seem unduly clear to you, you must have misunderstood what I said.
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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Everyone has one. You have to, to exist you need an ideology. The question is whether it is accurate or not.
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Given our inevitably incomplete knowledge about key structural aspects of our ever-changing economy and the sometimes asymmetric costs or benefits of particular outcomes, a central bank.
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If we are dealing with psychology, then the thermometers one uses to measure it have an effect.
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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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If prices go down, we will have problems – problems in the sense of spillover to other areas.
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All taxes are a drag on economic growth. It’s only a question of degree.
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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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Significantly opening up immigration to skilled workers solves two problems.
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I love to play tennis and golf, listen to music, watch baseball and root for the Redskins.
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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
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I came to a stark realization: chronic surpluses could be almost as destabilizing as chronic deficits.
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We will have more crises and none of them will look like this because no two crises have anything in common except human nature.
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If you get beyond the political rhetoric [and assembled a group to solve Social Security] it would take them 15 minutes. It would take them 15 minutes only because 10 minutes was used for pleasantries.
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I’m a plain soap kind of guy.
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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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