The recent period has been marked by a transformation to an economy that is more productive as competitive forces become increasingly intense and new technologies raise the efficiency of our businesses…
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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What an ideology is is a conceptual framework with the way people deal with reality.
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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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Political decisions are never random and will always lose out to innovative alternatives.
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I do not deny that many appear to have succeeded in a material way by cutting corners and by manipulating associates, both in their professional and in their personal lives.
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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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The tub helps me relax, and it’s a great place to read.
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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 love facts and figures. It’s like following a detective story, piecing together what’s going on in the economy.
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Gold, unlike all other commodities, is a currency…and the major thrust in the demand for gold is not for jewelry.
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Anything that we can do to raise personal savings is very much in the interest of this country.
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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 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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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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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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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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