The gut-feel of the 55-year old trader is more important than the mathematical elegance of the 25-year old genius.
ALAN GREENSPANThe gut-feel of the 55-year old trader is more important than the mathematical elegance of the 25-year old genius.
ALAN GREENSPANIt has been my experience that competency in mathematics, both in numerical manipulations and in understanding its conceptual foundations.
ALAN GREENSPANSkilled shortages in America exist because we are shielding our skilled labor force from world competition. [Visa quotas] have been substituted for the wage pricing mechanism.
ALAN GREENSPANWhat we have found over the years in the marketplace is that derivatives have been an extraordinarily useful vehicle to transfer risk from those who shouldn’t be taking it to those who are willing to and are capable of doing so.
ALAN GREENSPANExcessive optimism sows the seeds of its own reversal.
ALAN GREENSPANThe 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.
ALAN GREENSPANThere is no safe store of value. Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the hidden confiscation of wealth.
ALAN GREENSPANThe free lunch has still to be invented.
ALAN GREENSPANWas sort of intellectually shocked. Contagion is the critical phenomenon which causes the thing to fall apart.
ALAN GREENSPANCrony capitalism is essentially a condition in which… public officials are giving favours to people in the private sector in payment of political favours.
ALAN GREENSPANHistory demonstrates that participants in financial markets are susceptible to waves of optimism.
ALAN GREENSPANGiven our inevitably incomplete knowledge about key structural aspects of our ever-changing economy and the sometimes asymmetric costs or benefits of particular outcomes, a central bank.
ALAN GREENSPANThe abandonment of the gold standard made it possible for the welfare statists to use the banking system as a means to an unlimited expansion of credit.
ALAN GREENSPANIt signals problems with respect to currency markets. Central banks should pay attention to it.
ALAN GREENSPANTo 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.
ALAN GREENSPANIf 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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