If I seem unduly clear to you, you must have misunderstood what I said.
ALAN GREENSPANSenator, we are groping for understanding, the knowledge you assume I possess doesn’t exist’.
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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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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The probability of ten consecutive heads is 0.1 percent; thus, when you have millions of coin tossers, or investors, in the end there will be thousands of very successful practitioners of coin tossing, or stock picking.
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The more flexible an economy, the greater its ability to self-correct in response to inevitable, often unanticipated, disturbances and thus to contain the size and consequences of cyclical imbalances.
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I do not deny that many appear to have succeeded in a material way by cutting corners and by manipulating associates, both in their professional and in their personal lives.
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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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So there is no reason to suspect that the actual process of boosting rates would be any different.
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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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In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store of value.
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The only effective regulation lies in the propensity of customers to choose alternatives, of investors to move their funds elsewhere and of labour to acquire technical skills’.
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Excessive optimism shows the seeds of its own reversal in the form of imbalances that tend to grow over time.
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The arts develop skills and habits of mind that are important for workers in the new economy of ideas.
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We can guarantee cash benefits as far out and at whatever size you like, but we cannot guarantee their purchasing power.
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Market financed withdrawals of home equity in recent years.
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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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I’m a better economist than I was a sax player.
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