We as central bankers need not be concerned if a collapsing financial asset bubble does not threaten to impair the real economy, its production, jobs and price stability.
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.
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I have found no greater satisfaction than achieving success through honest dealing and strict adherence to the view that, for you to gain, those you deal with should gain as well.
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American consumers might benefit if lenders provided greater mortgage product alternatives to the traditional fixed-rate mortgage.
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We are in the midst of a once-in-a-century credit tsunami. Central banks and governments are being required to take unprecedented measures.
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[Republicans] swapped principle for power. They ended up with neither. They deserved to lose.
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A decline in the national housing price level would need to be substantial to trigger a significant rise in foreclosures, because the vast majority of homeowners have built up substantial equity in their homes despite large mortgage.
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The free lunch has still to be invented.
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Well, you probably will always believe there should be laws against fraud, and I don’t think there is any need for a law against fraud.
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These days, even out of office, I still read economic reports.
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The process of innovation is, of course, never ending.
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History cannot be reduced to a set of statistics and probabilities.
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No one has ever eliminated any of that stuff.
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No matter how skillful the trading scheme, over the long haul, abnormal returns are sustained only through abnormal exposure to risk.
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If we were to do that we would increase the supply of skilled workers that our schools have been unable to create and as a consequence of that we would lower the average wage of skills and reduce the degree of income inequality in this country.
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We will have more crises and none of them will look like this because no two crises have anything in common except human nature.
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Since I’ve become a central banker, I’ve learned to mumble with great incoherence.
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