We ought to be opening up our borders to skilled labour from all parts of the world because [the state of the world is as follows: ].
ALAN GREENSPANThe worst have failed; investors no longer fund them and are not likely to in the future.
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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But rules cannot substitute for character.
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I don’t think it’s possible for the Fed to end its easy-money policies in a trouble-free manner.
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I think that real pressure is going to occur not by the initiation by the Federal Reserve, but by the markets themselves.
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I cannot conceive of a politically feasible solution to this problem which will overdo cutting the deficit, where overdoing means harming the economy. It might be technically possible, but it is not realistic.
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Recent episodes in which Fed officials hinted at a shift toward higher interest rates have unleashed significant volatility in markets.
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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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The problem is not lack of regulation but unrealistic expectations. What we confront in reality is uncertainty, some of it frighteningly so…
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I have one other issue I’d like to throw on the table. I hesitate to do it, but let me tell you some of the issues that are involved here.
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Enhances a person’s ability to handle the more ambiguous and qualitative relationships that dominate our day-to-day financial decision-making
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I’ve been in and out of Wall Street since 1949, and I’ve never seen the type of animosity between government and Wall Street. And I’m not sure where it comes from, but I suspect it’s got to do with a general schism in this society which is really becoming ever more destructive.
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Political decisions are never random and will always lose out to innovative alternatives.
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Well, you probably will always believe there should be laws against fraud, and I don’t think there is any need for a law against fraud.
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Now, I only play very occasionally, and in fact, more piano than clarinet or sax.
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No matter how skillful the trading scheme, over the long haul, abnormal returns are sustained only through abnormal exposure to risk.
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No one has ever eliminated any of that stuff.
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