It is decidedly not true that “nice guys finish last,” as that highly original American baseball philosopher, Leo Durocher, was alleged to have said.
ALAN GREENSPANThe guiding purpose of the government regulator is to prevent rather than to create something.
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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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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Any informed borrower is simply less vulnerable to fraud and abuse.
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The economy is turning, and credit comes in with a lag, .. To the extent that a number of small firms are finding it difficult to get the credit they need at a price they can afford, that’s likely to change for the better.
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Indeed, better risk management may be the only truly necessary element of success in banking.
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There is no evidence that the business cycle has been repealed.
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…our market system depends critically on trust-trust in the word of our colleagues and trust in the word of those with whom we do business.
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The need for values is inbred. Their content is not.
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I made a mistake in presuming that the self-interests of organisations, specifically banks and others, were such that they were best capable of protecting their own shareholders and their equity in the firms.
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Unfortunately, Senator, nobody knows where the next innovative idea is coming from.
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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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Whatever you tax you get less of.
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If you get beyond the political rhetoric [and assembled a group to solve Social Security] it would take them 15 minutes. It would take them 15 minutes only because 10 minutes was used for pleasantries.
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What an ideology is is a conceptual framework with the way people deal with reality.
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History cannot be reduced to a set of statistics and probabilities.
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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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