The only effective regulation lies in the propensity of customers to choose alternatives, of investors to move their funds elsewhere and of labour to acquire technical skills’.
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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I love to play tennis and golf, listen to music, watch baseball and root for the Redskins.
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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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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?
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Greenspan, who knew so much more than most, knew far less than most supposed.
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Cash is available and we should use that in larger amounts, as is necessary, to solve the problems of the stress of this.
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The tub helps me relax, and it’s a great place to read.
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Crony capitalism is essentially a condition in which… public officials are giving favours to people in the private sector in payment of political favours.
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Gold still represents the ultimate form of payment in the world.
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The problem is not lack of regulation but unrealistic expectations. What we confront in reality is uncertainty, some of it frighteningly so…
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Given our inevitably incomplete knowledge about key structural aspects of our ever-changing economy and the sometimes asymmetric costs or benefits of particular outcomes, a central bank.
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Amateurs want to be right. Professionals want to make money.
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By far the most significant event in finance during the past decade has been the extraordinary development and expansion of financial derivatives.
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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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Fiat money in extremis is accepted by nobody. Gold is always accepted.
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As long as we issue fiat currency, I see no alternative to a legal tender law.
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