Unfortunately, Senator, nobody knows where the next innovative idea is coming from.
ALAN GREENSPANCorruption, embezzlement, fraud, these are all characteristics which exist everywhere.
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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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.
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Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the ‘hidden’ confiscation of wealth.
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If prices go down, we will have problems – problems in the sense of spillover to other areas.
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The increased flexibility of our economy, which has fostered our extraordinary resilience to shocks.
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If you get beyond the political rhetoric [and assembled a group to solve Social Security] it would take them 15 minutes. It would take them 15 minutes only because 10 minutes was used for pleasantries.
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Institutions of the newer participants in global finance had not been tested, until recently…recent crisis have underscored certain financial structure vulnerabilities that are not readily assuaged in the short run.
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Well, you probably will always believe there should be laws against fraud, and I don’t think there is any need for a law against fraud.
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The number one problem in today’s generation and economy is the lack of financial literacy.
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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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I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil.
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An almost hysterical antagonism toward the gold standard is one issue which unites statists of all persuasions.
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Then fear hits, and it comes down very sharply. When I started to look at that.
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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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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.
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In general, corruption tends to exist whenever governments have favors to extend, or something to sell.
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