Senator, if I seem clear to you, you must have misunderstood me’.
ALAN GREENSPANBy far the most significant event in finance during the past decade has been the extraordinary development and expansion of financial derivatives.
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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I guess I should warn you, if I turn out to be particularly clear, you’ve probably misunderstood what I’ve said.
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We may be in a rapidly evolving international financial system with all the bells and whistles of the so-called new economy. But the old-economy rules of prudence are as formidable as ever. We violate them at our own peril.
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Indeed, better risk management may be the only truly necessary element of success in banking.
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Since I’ve become a central banker, I’ve learned to mumble with great incoherence.
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No one has ever eliminated any of that stuff.
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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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Credit-default swaps, I think, have serious problems associated with them.
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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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If we are to remain preeminent in transforming knowledge into economic value, America’s system of higher education must remain the world’s leader in generating scientific and technological breakthrough, and in meeting the challenge to educate workers.
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I’m a better economist than I was a sax player.
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Then fear hits, and it comes down very sharply. When I started to look at that.
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The economy is turning, and credit comes in with a lag, .. To the extent that a number of small firms are finding it difficult to get the credit they need at a price they can afford, that’s likely to change for the better.
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And she always has so much fun doing it. We make a good team.
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In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store of value.
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We need, in effect, to make the phantom ‘lock-boxes’ around the trust fund real.
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