While these tendencies were no doubt in train in the “old,” pre-1990s economy, they accelerated over the past decade as a number of technologies with their roots in the cumulative innovations of the past half-century began to yield dramatic economic returns.
ALAN GREENSPANProtectionism will do little to create jobs and if foreigners retaliate, we will surely lose jobs.
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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I love to play tennis and golf, listen to music, watch baseball and root for the Redskins.
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It’s not for anything other than an escape from what is perceived to be a fiat money system, paper money, that seems to be deteriorating.
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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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Unfortunately, Senator, nobody knows where the next innovative idea is coming from.
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And whatever their publicized angst over Saddam Hussein’s ‘weapons of mass destruction.
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Recent episodes in which Fed officials hinted at a shift toward higher interest rates have unleashed significant volatility in markets.
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I was raising the question on the side with Governor Mullins of what would happen if the Treasury sold a little gold in this market.
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If we are to remain preeminent in transforming knowledge into economic value, America’s system of higher education must remain the world’s leader in generating scientific and technological breakthrough, and in meeting the challenge to educate workers.
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History has not dealt kindly with the aftermath of protracted periods of low risk premiums.
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People dont realize that we cannot forecast the future. What we can do is have probabilities of what causes what, but thats as far as we go. And Ive had a very successful career as a forecaster, starting in 1948 forward.
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You can’t have the capitalist system if an increasing number of people think it is unjust.
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But rules cannot substitute for character.
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Without calling the overall national issue a bubble, it’s pretty clear that it’s an unsustainable underlying pattern.
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So there is no reason to suspect that the actual process of boosting rates would be any different.
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Market financed withdrawals of home equity in recent years.
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