And whatever their publicized angst over Saddam Hussein’s ‘weapons of mass destruction.
ALAN GREENSPANAmerican consumers might benefit if lenders provided greater mortgage product alternatives to the traditional fixed-rate mortgage.
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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Institutions of the newer participants in global finance had not been tested, until recently…recent crisis have underscored certain financial structure vulnerabilities that are not readily assuaged in the short run.
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The increased flexibility of our economy, which has fostered our extraordinary resilience to shocks.
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If we are dealing with psychology, then the thermometers one uses to measure it have an effect.
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Gold still represents the ultimate form of payment in the world.
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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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Even though some down payments are borrowed, it would take a large, and historically most unusual, fall in home prices to wipe out a significant part of home equity.
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I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil.
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I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil.
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And the percentage changes in wage rates would be the same for all job grades.
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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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While local economies may experience significant price imbalances, a national severe price distortion seems most unlikely in the United States, given its size and diversity.
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Such caution seems especially warranted with regard to the sharp rise in equity prices during the past two years. These gains have obviously raised questions of sustainability.
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Enhances a person’s ability to handle the more ambiguous and qualitative relationships that dominate our day-to-day financial decision-making
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I’m a plain soap kind of guy.
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I guess I should warn you, if I turn out to be particularly clear, you’ve probably misunderstood what I’ve said.
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