By far the most significant event in finance during the past decade has been the extraordinary development and expansion of financial derivatives.
ALAN GREENSPANSo there is no reason to suspect that the actual process of boosting rates would be any different.
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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Since I’ve become a central banker, I’ve learned to mumble with great incoherence.
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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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I didn’t believe in absolutes, moral or otherwise. If I couldn’t prove a proposition with facts and figures, it was without merit.
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If all currencies are moving up or down together, the question is: relative to what? Gold is the canary in the coal mine.
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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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While local economies may experience significant price imbalances, a national severe price distortion seems most unlikely in the United States, given its size and diversity.
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Protectionism will do little to create jobs and if foreigners retaliate, we will surely lose jobs.
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But rules cannot substitute for character.
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American and British authorities were also concerned about violence in an area that harbors a resource indispensable for the functioning of the word economy.
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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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If I’ve made myself clear, I’ve misspoken.
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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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Gold still represents the ultimate form of payment in the world.
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Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the confiscation of wealth.If I seem unduly clear to you, you must have misunderstood what I said.
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And she always has so much fun doing it. We make a good team.
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