I don’t think it’s possible for the Fed to end its easy-money policies in a trouble-free manner.
ALAN GREENSPANHow do we know when irrational exuberance has unduly escalated asset values?
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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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If one grasps this, one has no difficulty in understanding the statists’ antagonism toward the gold standard.
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We ought to be opening up our borders to skilled labour from all parts of the world because [the state of the world is as follows: ].
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How do we know when irrational exuberance has unduly escalated asset values?
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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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It is regrettably the way human nature functions, whether we like it or not. What successful economies do is keep it to a minimum.
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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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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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History has not dealt kindly with the aftermath of protracted periods of low risk premiums.
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Excessive optimism sows the seeds of its own reversal.
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I must say, I never expected to see the day where I would be talking about anything other than reducing the debt, I’m running into the tyranny of zero, which is where you can’t reduce (the debt) any more
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The tub helps me relax, and it’s a great place to read.
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The United States can pay any debt it has because we can always print money to do that. So there is zero probability of default.
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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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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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