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I’m not denying that monopolies are terrible things, but I am denying that it is readily easy to resolve them through legislation of that nature.

Alan Greenspan

We are in the midst of a once-in-a-century credit tsunami. Central banks and governments are being required to take unprecedented measures.
ALAN GREENSPAN

Being Central Century Government Midst Once REquired Tsunami
There’s an interesting question here because if the gold price broke in that context, the thermometer would not be just a measuring tool. It would basically affect the underlying psychology.
ALAN GREENSPAN

Context Mean Price Psychology Thermometer Underlying
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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Absolute Believe Fact Figure Moral Otherwise Proposition
Without calling the overall national issue a bubble, it’s pretty clear that it’s an unsustainable underlying pattern.
ALAN GREENSPAN

Buddle Call Clear Issue National Overall Pattern Pretty Unsustainable Without
The worst have failed; investors no longer fund them and are not likely to in the future.
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Fail Future Investor Likely Longer Worst
Gold stands in the way of this insidious process. It stands as a protector of property rights.
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Gold Insidious Process Property Protector Right Stand Way
I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil.
ALAN GREENSPAN

Acknowledge Country Inconvenient Large Saddened
There are no easy choices. Easy choices are long gone.
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Choice Easy Gone Long No
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.
ALAN GREENSPAN

Cannot Conceive Cut Deficit Economy Harm Overdo Overdue Political Realistic Solution
I don’t know where the stock market is going, but I will say this, that if it continues higher, this will do more to stimulate the economy than anything we’ve been talking about today or anything anybody else was talking about.
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Continue Go Higher Market More Stock
The only sustainable way to increase demand for vacant houses is to spur the formation of new households. Admitting more skilled immigrants, who tend to earn enough to buy homes, would accomplish that while paying other dividends to the U.S. economy.
ALAN GREENSPAN

Formation House Household Increase New Only Sustainable
The tub helps me relax, and it’s a great place to read.
ALAN GREENSPAN

Great Help Place Read Tub
Then fear hits, and it comes down very sharply. When I started to look at that.
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Come Down Fear Hit Look Sharply Start That
Before I met Ayn Rand, I was a logical positivist, and accordingly,
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Accordingly Before Logical Met People Positivist
Such caution seems especially warranted with regard to the sharp rise in equity prices during the past two years. These gains have obviously raised questions of sustainability.
ALAN GREENSPAN

Caution During Especially Past Price Regard Rise Sharp Two Warranted Year
The current financial crisis in the US is likely to be judged in retrospect as the most wrenching since the end of the Second World War.
ALAN GREENSPAN

Country Crise Current End Financial Most Retrospect Since War Wrench

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