The guiding purpose of the government regulator is to prevent rather than to create something.
ALAN GREENSPANSenator, if I seem clear to you, you must have misunderstood me’.
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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We will have more crises and none of them will look like this because no two crises have anything in common except human nature.
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We can guarantee cash benefits as far out and at whatever size you like, but we cannot guarantee their purchasing power.
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Derivatives have permitted the unbundling of financial risks.
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In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store of value.
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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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If I’ve made myself clear, I’ve misspoken.
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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.
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If we were to do that we would increase the supply of skilled workers that our schools have been unable to create and as a consequence of that we would lower the average wage of skills and reduce the degree of income inequality in this country.
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I came to a stark realization: chronic surpluses could be almost as destabilizing as chronic deficits.
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The abandonment of the gold standard made it possible for the welfare statists to use the banking system as a means to an unlimited expansion of credit.
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How do we know when irrational exuberance has unduly escalated asset values?
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Need to consider not only the most likely future path for the economy but also the distribution of possible outcomes about that path.
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At the risk of some oversimplification, if the skill composition of our work force meshed fully with the needs of our increasingly complex capital-stock, wage-skill differentials would be stable.
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If I say something which you understand fully in this regard, I probably made a mistake.
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No matter how skillful the trading scheme, over the long haul, abnormal returns are sustained only through abnormal exposure to risk.
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