You can’t have the capitalist system if an increasing number of people think it is unjust.
ALAN GREENSPANI’ve always argued that this country has benefited immensely from the fact that we draw people from all over the world.
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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The arts develop skills and habits of mind that are important for workers in the new economy of ideas.
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Greenspan, who knew so much more than most, knew far less than most supposed.
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Then fear hits, and it comes down very sharply. When I started to look at that.
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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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It is regrettably the way human nature functions, whether we like it or not. What successful economies do is keep it to a minimum.
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Productivity is notoriously difficult to predict.
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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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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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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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Credit-default swaps, I think, have serious problems associated with them.
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The United States can pay any debt it has because we can always print money to do that. So there is zero probability of default.
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Since I’ve become a central banker, I’ve learned to mumble with great incoherence.
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Regulation of derivatives transactions that are privately negotiated by professionals is unnecessary.
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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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I love facts and figures. It’s like following a detective story, piecing together what’s going on in the economy.
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