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Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the confiscation of wealth.If I seem unduly clear to you, you must have misunderstood what I said.

Alan Greenspan

Developing protectionism regarding trade and our reluctance to place fiscal policy on a more sustainable path are threatening what may well be our most valued policy asset.
ALAN GREENSPAN

Develop Fiscal Path Place Policy Protection Regard Reluctance Sustainable Trade
The worst have failed; investors no longer fund them and are not likely to in the future.
ALAN GREENSPAN

Fail Future Investor Likely Longer Worst
I guess I should warn you, if I turn out to be particularly clear, you’ve probably misunderstood what I’ve said.
ALAN GREENSPAN

Clear Guess Out Particular Turn Warn You
There is no evidence that the business cycle has been repealed.
ALAN GREENSPAN

Business Cycle Evidence Repeat
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.
ALAN GREENSPAN

Abandonment Banking Credit Gold Made Possible Standard Statics System Use Welfare
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.
ALAN GREENSPAN

Continue Go Higher Market More Stock
Rules cannot take the place of character.
ALAN GREENSPAN

Character Place Rule
Improvements in lending practices driven by information technology have enabled lenders to reach out to households with previously unrecognized borrowing capacities.
ALAN GREENSPAN

Capacity Drive Enable Household Improvement Information Lead Out Practice Reach Technology Tender
I was a good amateur but only an average professional. I soon realized that there was a limit to how far I could rise in the music business, so I left the band and enrolled at New York University.
ALAN GREENSPAN

Amateur Average Business Country Enroll Good Limit Professional Realize Soon
While local economies may experience significant price imbalances, a national severe price distortion seems most unlikely in the United States, given its size and diversity.
ALAN GREENSPAN

Distortion Economy Experience Imbalance Local National Price Seem Severe Significant
The arts develop skills and habits of mind that are important for workers in the new economy of ideas.
ALAN GREENSPAN

Art Development Economy Habit Idea Importance Mind Skill Worker
There is nothing to guarantee the superior judgment, knowledge, and integrity of an inspector or a bureaucrat-and the deadly consequences of entrusting him with arbitrary power are obvious.
ALAN GREENSPAN

Arbitrary Death Guarantee Inspector Integrity Judgement Knowledge Nothing Superior
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.
ALAN GREENSPAN

Consequence Country Degree Income Reduce Skill Supply Unable Wage Work
We cannot rule out a situation in which a preemptive policy tightening becomes necessary.
ALAN GREENSPAN

Necessary Out Policy Preëmptive Rule Situation Tight
The true measure of a career is to be able to be content, even proud, that you succeeded through your own endeavors without leaving a trail of casualties in your wake.
ALAN GREENSPAN

Able Content Leave Measure Own Succeeded True
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
ALAN GREENSPAN

Anything Day Expect Must Reduce Say Talk

Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the confiscation of wealth.If I seem unduly clear to you, you must have misunderstood what I said.

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