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So there is no reason to suspect that the actual process of boosting rates would be any different.

Alan Greenspan

I have found no greater satisfaction than achieving success through honest dealing and strict adherence to the view that, for you to gain, those you deal with should gain as well.
ALAN GREENSPAN

Adherence Business Deal Gain Honest Honesty Satisfaction Strict Success
Nor can private counterparties restrict supplies of gold, another commodity whose derivatives are often traded over-the-counter, where central banks stand ready to lease gold in increasing quantities should the price rise.
ALAN GREENSPAN

Another Commodity Counterparty Derivative Gold Often Private Restrict Supply Trade
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.
ALAN GREENSPAN

Appear Corner Cut Deny Manipulate Material Succeeded
If I’ve made myself clear, I’ve misspoken.
ALAN GREENSPAN

Clear Made Misspken Myself
I love to play tennis and golf, listen to music, watch baseball and root for the Redskins.
ALAN GREENSPAN

Baseball Listen Love Music Olf Play Redskin Root Tennis
…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.
ALAN GREENSPAN

Colleagues Critical Depend Marlet System Trust World
Regulation – which is based on force and fear – undermines the moral base of business dealings. It becomes cheaper to bribe a building inspector than to meet his standards of construction. Protection of the consumer by regulation is thus illusory.
ALAN GREENSPAN

Base Business Deal Fear Force Regulation Undermine
But how do we know when irrational exuberance has unduly escalated asset values, which then become subject to unexpected and prolonged contractions as they have in Japan over the past decade?
ALAN GREENSPAN

Country Decade Escalate Irrational Past Subject
Capitalism is based on self-interest and self-esteem; it holds integrity and trustworthiness as cardinal virtues and makes them pay off in the marketplace, thus demanding that men survive by means of virtue, not vices.
ALAN GREENSPAN

Capitalism Cardinal Demand Integrity Interest Market Piece Trustworthy Vice Virtue
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.
ALAN GREENSPAN

Basic Communication Education Foundation Importance Learn Solid Soon Succeed
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.
ALAN GREENSPAN

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I’ve always argued that this country has benefited immensely from the fact that we draw people from all over the world.
ALAN GREENSPAN

All Always Argue Benefited Country Draw Fact Immensely Over People World
People dont realize that we cannot forecast the future. What we can do is have probabilities of what causes what, but thats as far as we go. And Ive had a very successful career as a forecaster, starting in 1948 forward.
ALAN GREENSPAN

Cannot Cause Far Forecast Future Go People Realize Probability
It has been my experience that competency in mathematics, both in numerical manipulations and in understanding its conceptual foundations.
ALAN GREENSPAN

Competency Experience Foundation Manipulation Mathematics Numerical Understand
The very nature of finance is that it cannot be profitable unless it is significantly leveraged… and as long as there is debt, there can be failure and contagion.
ALAN GREENSPAN

Failure Finance Leverage Nature Significantly Unless Very
Gold stands in the way of this insidious process. It stands as a protector of property rights.
ALAN GREENSPAN

Gold Insidious Process Property Protector Right Stand Way

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