I’m always amazed that my wife can handle different subjects – one day politics, the next day foreign policy.
ALAN GREENSPANHow do we know when irrational exuberance has unduly escalated asset values?
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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Amateurs want to be right. Professionals want to make money.
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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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There is no safe store of value. Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the hidden confiscation of wealth.
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And whatever their publicized angst over Saddam Hussein’s ‘weapons of mass destruction.
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Productivity is notoriously difficult to predict.
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Fear and euphoria are dominant forces, and fear is many multiples the size of euphoria. Bubbles go up very slowly as euphoria builds.
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It’s hard to overemphasize how important Ford’s deregulation was. True, most of the benefits took years to unfold-rail freight rates, for example hardly budged at first.
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If prices go down, we will have problems – problems in the sense of spillover to other areas.
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[Republicans] swapped principle for power. They ended up with neither. They deserved to lose.
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They seem to sense… that gold and economic freedom are inseparable.
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I was a fairly good amateur musician, and I was an average professional. But the one thing I saw was that the big band business was fading.
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I cannot conceive of a politically feasible solution to this problem which will overdo cutting the deficit, where overdoing means harming the economy. It might be technically possible, but it is not realistic.
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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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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.
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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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