If you get beyond the political rhetoric [and assembled a group to solve Social Security] it would take them 15 minutes. It would take them 15 minutes only because 10 minutes was used for pleasantries.
ALAN GREENSPANWithout the triggers, that tax cut is irreponsible fiscal policy. Eventually, I think that will be the consensus view.
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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Senator, if I seem clear to you, you must have misunderstood me’.
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There is no evidence that the business cycle has been repealed.
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I was raising the question on the side with Governor Mullins of what would happen if the Treasury sold a little gold in this market.
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If we are dealing with psychology, then the thermometers one uses to measure it have an effect.
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Clearly, sustained low inflation implies less uncertainty about the future, and lower risk premiums imply higher prices of stocks and other earning assets.
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Fiat money in extremis is accepted by nobody. Gold is always accepted.
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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 love to play tennis and golf, listen to music, watch baseball and root for the Redskins.
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To succeed, you will soon learn, as I did, the importance of a solid foundation in the basics of education – literacy, both verbal and numerical, and communication skills.
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We as central bankers need not be concerned if a collapsing financial asset bubble does not threaten to impair the real economy, its production, jobs and price stability.
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But rules cannot substitute for character.
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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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Although the outlook is clouded by a number of uncertainties, the central tendencies of the projections .. imply continued good economic performance in the United States.
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The increased flexibility of our economy, which has fostered our extraordinary resilience to shocks.
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Protectionism will do little to create jobs and if foreigners retaliate, we will surely lose jobs.
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