Senator, if I seem clear to you, you must have misunderstood me’.
ALAN GREENSPANExcessive optimism shows the seeds of its own reversal in the form of imbalances that tend to grow over time.
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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I was a good amateur but only an average professional. I soon realized that there was a limit to how far I could rise in the music business, so I left the band and enrolled at New York University.
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The process of innovation is, of course, never ending.
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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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I have long argued that paying down the national debt is beneficial for the economy.
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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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Corruption, embezzlement, fraud, these are all characteristics which exist everywhere.
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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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Since I’ve become a central banker, I’ve learned to mumble with great incoherence.
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The number one problem in today’s generation and economy is the lack of financial literacy.
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Crony capitalism is essentially a condition in which… public officials are giving favours to people in the private sector in payment of political favours.
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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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Improvements in lending practices driven by information technology have enabled lenders to reach out to households with previously unrecognized borrowing capacities.
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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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Was sort of intellectually shocked. Contagion is the critical phenomenon which causes the thing to fall apart.
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When trust is lost, a nation’s ability to transact business is palpably undermined.
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