Senator, if I seem clear to you, you must have misunderstood me’.
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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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: ].
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While these tendencies were no doubt in train in the “old,” pre-1990s economy, they accelerated over the past decade as a number of technologies with their roots in the cumulative innovations of the past half-century began to yield dramatic economic returns.
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Regulation of derivatives transactions that are privately negotiated by professionals is unnecessary.
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If all currencies are moving up or down together, the question is: relative to what? Gold is the canary in the coal mine.
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Developing protectionism regarding trade and our reluctance to place fiscal policy on a more sustainable path are threatening what may well be our most valued policy asset.
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If I’ve made myself clear, I’ve misspoken.
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I’m always amazed that my wife can handle different subjects – one day politics, the next day foreign policy.
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History cannot be reduced to a set of statistics and probabilities.
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Many of those who purchased their residence more than a year ago have equity buffers in their homes adequate to withstand any price decline other than a very deep one.
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Need to consider not only the most likely future path for the economy but also the distribution of possible outcomes about that path.
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In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation.
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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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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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It is this superlatively moral system that the welfare statists propose to improve upon by means of preventative law, snooping bureaucrats, and the chronic goad of fear.
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But rules cannot substitute for character.
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