The guiding purpose of the government regulator is to prevent rather than to create something.
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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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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But how do we know when irrational exuberance has unduly escalated asset values, which then become subject to unexpected and prolonged contractions as they have in Japan over the past decade?
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And she always has so much fun doing it. We make a good team.
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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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So there is no reason to suspect that the actual process of boosting rates would be any different.
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Since I’ve become a central banker, I’ve learned to mumble with great incoherence.
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And whatever their publicized angst over Saddam Hussein’s ‘weapons of mass destruction.
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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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Amateurs want to be right. Professionals want to make money.
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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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I love to play tennis and golf, listen to music, watch baseball and root for the Redskins.
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An almost hysterical antagonism toward the gold standard is one issue which unites statists of all persuasions.
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I must say, I never expected to see the day where I would be talking about anything other than reducing the debt, I’m running into the tyranny of zero, which is where you can’t reduce (the debt) any more
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You can’t have the capitalist system if an increasing number of people think it is unjust.
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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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