History cannot be reduced to a set of statistics and probabilities.
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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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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There’s an interesting question here because if the gold price broke in that context, the thermometer would not be just a measuring tool. It would basically affect the underlying psychology.
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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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Now, I only play very occasionally, and in fact, more piano than clarinet or sax.
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This decade is strewn with examples of bright people who thought they built a better mousetrap that could consistently extract abnormal returns from the financial markets.
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And whatever their publicized angst over Saddam Hussein’s ‘weapons of mass destruction.
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The free lunch has still to be invented.
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Many of those who purchased their residence more than a year ago have equity buffers in their homes adequate to withstand any price decline other than a very deep one.
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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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In general, corruption tends to exist whenever governments have favors to extend, or something to sell.
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I was a fairly good amateur musician, and I was an average professional. But the one thing I saw was that the big band business was fading.
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We need, in effect, to make the phantom ‘lock-boxes’ around the trust fund real.
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The process of innovation is, of course, never ending.
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Any informed borrower is simply less vulnerable to fraud and abuse.
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Developing protectionism regarding trade and our reluctance to place fiscal policy on a more sustainable path are threatening what may well be our most valued policy asset.
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