And the percentage changes in wage rates would be the same for all job grades.
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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Political decisions are never random and will always lose out to innovative alternatives.
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The guiding purpose of the government regulator is to prevent rather than to create something.
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A decline in the national housing price level would need to be substantial to trigger a significant rise in foreclosures, because the vast majority of homeowners have built up substantial equity in their homes despite large mortgage.
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History cannot be reduced to a set of statistics and probabilities.
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It is decidedly not true that “nice guys finish last,” as that highly original American baseball philosopher, Leo Durocher, was alleged to have said.
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Gold stands in the way of this insidious process. It stands as a protector of property rights.
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Productivity is notoriously difficult to predict.
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Rules cannot take the place of character.
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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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We may be in a rapidly evolving international financial system with all the bells and whistles of the so-called new economy. But the old-economy rules of prudence are as formidable as ever. We violate them at our own peril.
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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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Remember what we’re looking at. Gold is a currency. It is still, by all evidence, a premier currency, that no fiat currency, including the dollar, can match.
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Clearly, sustained low inflation implies less uncertainty about the future, and lower risk premiums imply higher prices of stocks and other earning assets.
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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.
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But material success is possible in this world and far more satisfying when it comes without exploiting others.
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