Yet deregulation set the stage for an enormous wave of creative destruction in the 1980s.
ALAN GREENSPANSo there is no reason to suspect that the actual process of boosting rates would be any different.
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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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Regulators have not been able to achieve the level of future clarity required to act pre-emptively.
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Credit-default swaps, I think, have serious problems associated with them.
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We may be in a rapidly evolving international financial system with all the bells and whistles of the so-called new economy. But the old-economy rules of prudence are as formidable as ever. We violate them at our own peril.
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Senator, we are groping for understanding, the knowledge you assume I possess doesn’t exist’.
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If I say something which you understand fully in this regard, I probably made a mistake.
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It’s a bubble. It has to have intrinsic value. You have to really stretch your imagination to infer what the intrinsic value of Bitcoin is. I haven’t been able to do it. Maybe somebody else can.
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In the process we have created [a] privileged elite whose incomes are being supported at non-competitively high levels by immigration quotas on skilled professionals.
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I’ve been in and out of Wall Street since 1949, and I’ve never seen the type of animosity between government and Wall Street. And I’m not sure where it comes from, but I suspect it’s got to do with a general schism in this society which is really becoming ever more destructive.
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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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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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I guess I should warn you, if I turn out to be particularly clear, you’ve probably misunderstood what I’ve said.
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The number one problem in today’s generation and economy is the lack of financial literacy.
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No one has ever eliminated any of that stuff.
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Such caution seems especially warranted with regard to the sharp rise in equity prices during the past two years. These gains have obviously raised questions of sustainability.
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