I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil.
ALAN GREENSPANThe guiding purpose of the government regulator is to prevent rather than to create something.
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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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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If I seem unduly clear to you, you must have misunderstood what I said.
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The gut-feel of the 55-year old trader is more important than the mathematical elegance of the 25-year old genius.
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Market financed withdrawals of home equity in recent years.
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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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It is this superlatively moral system that the welfare statists propose to improve upon by means of preventative law, snooping bureaucrats, and the chronic goad of fear.
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No one has ever eliminated any of that stuff.
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The worst have failed; investors no longer fund them and are not likely to in the future.
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The companies could hire the educated workers they need. And those workers would compete with high-income people, driving more income equality.
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Productivity is notoriously difficult to predict.
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The increased flexibility of our economy, which has fostered our extraordinary resilience to shocks.
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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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It is decidedly not true that “nice guys finish last,” as that highly original American baseball philosopher, Leo Durocher, was alleged to have said.
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Political decisions are never random and will always lose out to innovative alternatives.
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Remember what we’re looking at. Gold is a currency. It is still, by all evidence, a premier currency, that no fiat currency, including the dollar, can match.
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