Anything that we can do to raise personal savings is very much in the interest of this country.
ALAN GREENSPANThe guiding purpose of the government regulator is to prevent rather than to create something.
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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Skilled shortages in America exist because we are shielding our skilled labor force from world competition. [Visa quotas] have been substituted for the wage pricing mechanism.
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I was a fairly good amateur musician, and I was an average professional. But the one thing I saw was that the big band business was fading.
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Excessive optimism shows the seeds of its own reversal in the form of imbalances that tend to grow over time.
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But material success is possible in this world and far more satisfying when it comes without exploiting others.
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I do not deny that many appear to have succeeded in a material way by cutting corners and by manipulating associates, both in their professional and in their personal lives.
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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 number of mistakes I have made are just awesome. There is no number large enough to account for that.
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Then fear hits, and it comes down very sharply. When I started to look at that.
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I love facts and figures. It’s like following a detective story, piecing together what’s going on in the economy.
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I think that real pressure is going to occur not by the initiation by the Federal Reserve, but by the markets themselves.
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To succeed, you will soon learn, as I did, the importance of a solid foundation in the basics of education – literacy, both verbal and numerical, and communication skills.
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Unfortunately, Senator, nobody knows where the next innovative idea is coming from.
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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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Those of us who have looked to the self-interest of lending institutions to protect shareholders’ equity are in a state of shocked disbelief.
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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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