But material success is possible in this world and far more satisfying when it comes without exploiting others.
ALAN GREENSPANI am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil.
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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Remember what we’re looking at. Gold is a currency. It is still, by all evidence, a premier currency, that no fiat currency, including the dollar, can match.
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I came to a stark realization: chronic surpluses could be almost as destabilizing as chronic deficits.
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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’m a better economist than I was a sax player.
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History demonstrates that participants in financial markets are susceptible to waves of optimism.
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Senator, if I seem clear to you, you must have misunderstood me’.
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They then need to reach a judgment about the probabilities, costs, and benefits of the various possible outcomes under alternative choices for policy.
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Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the ‘hidden’ confiscation of wealth.
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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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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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The recent evidence increasingly suggests that an economic expansion is already well under way, although an array of influences unique to this business cycle seems likely to moderate its speed.
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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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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…
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At the risk of some oversimplification, if the skill composition of our work force meshed fully with the needs of our increasingly complex capital-stock, wage-skill differentials would be stable.
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Those of us who have looked to the self-interest of lending institutions to protect shareholders’ equity are in a state of shocked disbelief.
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