I’m not denying that monopolies are terrible things, but I am denying that it is readily easy to resolve them through legislation of that nature.
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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Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the confiscation of wealth.If I seem unduly clear to you, you must have misunderstood what I said.
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If you think you understand what I am saying you do not understand what I am saying.
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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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Market financed withdrawals of home equity in recent years.
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As long as we issue fiat currency, I see no alternative to a legal tender law.
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We can see that in the inverse relationship exhibited by price/earnings ratios and the rate of inflation in the past.
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The 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.
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Rules cannot take the place of character.
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I didn’t believe in absolutes, moral or otherwise. If I couldn’t prove a proposition with facts and figures, it was without merit.
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I cannot conceive of a politically feasible solution to this problem which will overdo cutting the deficit, where overdoing means harming the economy. It might be technically possible, but it is not realistic.
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I don’t think it’s possible for the Fed to end its easy-money policies in a trouble-free manner.
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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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The only sustainable way to increase demand for vacant houses is to spur the formation of new households. Admitting more skilled immigrants, who tend to earn enough to buy homes, would accomplish that while paying other dividends to the U.S. economy.
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If we allow terrorism to undermine our freedom of action, we could reverse at least part of the palpable gains achieved by postwar globalization. It is incumbent upon us not to allow that to happen.
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I came to a stark realization: chronic surpluses could be almost as destabilizing as chronic deficits.
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