But material success is possible in this world and far more satisfying when it comes without exploiting others.
ALAN GREENSPANMany of those who purchased their residence more than a year ago have equity buffers in their homes adequate to withstand any price decline other than a very deep one.
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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Regulation – which is based on force and fear – undermines the moral base of business dealings. It becomes cheaper to bribe a building inspector than to meet his standards of construction. Protection of the consumer by regulation is thus illusory.
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I believe that the general growth in large [financial] institutions have occurred in the context of an underlying structure of markets in which many of the larger risks are dramatically — I should say, fully — hedged.
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The 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.
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It keeps interest rates lower than they otherwise would be and frees savings to finance increases in the capital stock, thereby boosting productivity and real incomes.
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Nor can private counterparties restrict supplies of gold, another commodity whose derivatives are often traded over-the-counter, where central banks stand ready to lease gold in increasing quantities should the price rise.
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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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Unfortunately, Senator, nobody knows where the next innovative idea is coming from.
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When trust is lost, a nation’s ability to transact business is palpably undermined.
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Senator, we are groping for understanding, the knowledge you assume I possess doesn’t exist’.
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Developing protectionism regarding trade and our reluctance to place fiscal policy on a more sustainable path are threatening what may well be our most valued policy asset.
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The probability of ten consecutive heads is 0.1 percent; thus, when you have millions of coin tossers, or investors, in the end there will be thousands of very successful practitioners of coin tossing, or stock picking.
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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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Recent episodes in which Fed officials hinted at a shift toward higher interest rates have unleashed significant volatility in markets.
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Whatever you tax you get less of.
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Derivatives have permitted the unbundling of financial risks.
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