And whatever their publicized angst over Saddam Hussein’s ‘weapons of mass destruction.
ALAN GREENSPANCorruption, embezzlement, fraud, these are all characteristics which exist everywhere.
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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We cannot rule out a situation in which a preemptive policy tightening becomes necessary.
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The Iraq War is largely about oil.
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Gold, unlike all other commodities, is a currency…and the major thrust in the demand for gold is not for jewelry.
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The economy is turning, and credit comes in with a lag, .. To the extent that a number of small firms are finding it difficult to get the credit they need at a price they can afford, that’s likely to change for the better.
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Excessive optimism sows the seeds of its own reversal.
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Nor can private counterparties restrict supplies of gold, another commodity whose derivatives are often traded over-the-counter, where central banks stand ready to lease gold in increasing quantities should the price rise.
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Credit-default swaps, I think, have serious problems associated with them.
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Given our inevitably incomplete knowledge about key structural aspects of our ever-changing economy and the sometimes asymmetric costs or benefits of particular outcomes, a central bank.
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The increased flexibility of our economy, which has fostered our extraordinary resilience to shocks.
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The recent evidence increasingly suggests that an economic expansion is already well under way, although an array of influences unique to this business cycle seems likely to moderate its speed.
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Political decisions are never random and will always lose out to innovative alternatives.
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I love facts and figures. It’s like following a detective story, piecing together what’s going on in the economy.
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Any onset of increased investor caution elevates risk premiums and, as a consequence, lowers asset values and promotes the liquidation of the debt that supported higher asset prices.
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We as central bankers need not be concerned if a collapsing financial asset bubble does not threaten to impair the real economy, its production, jobs and price stability.
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Skilled shortages in America exist because we are shielding our skilled labor force from world competition. [Visa quotas] have been substituted for the wage pricing mechanism.
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