I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil.
ALAN GREENSPANAnyone willing to do what is required to become president of the United States is thereby barred from taking that office. I’m only half joking
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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We can guarantee cash benefits as far out and at whatever size you like, but we cannot guarantee their purchasing power.
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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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But how do we know when irrational exuberance has unduly escalated asset values, which then become subject to unexpected and prolonged contractions as they have in Japan over the past decade?
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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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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.
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I’m a better economist than I was a sax player.
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Credit-default swaps, I think, have serious problems associated with them.
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When trust is lost, a nation’s ability to transact business is palpably undermined.
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The current financial crisis in the US is likely to be judged in retrospect as the most wrenching since the end of the Second World War.
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Without calling the overall national issue a bubble, it’s pretty clear that it’s an unsustainable underlying pattern.
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Gold still represents the ultimate form of payment in the world.
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If I’ve made myself clear, I’ve misspoken.
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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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Amateurs want to be right. Professionals want to make money.
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It seems superfluous to constrain trading in some of the newer derivatives and other innovative financial contracts of the past decade.
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