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.
ALAN GREENSPANAnd whatever their publicized angst over Saddam Hussein’s ‘weapons of mass destruction.
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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But rules cannot substitute for character.
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If one grasps this, one has no difficulty in understanding the statists’ antagonism toward the gold standard.
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If I say something which you understand fully in this regard, I probably made a mistake.
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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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Any informed borrower is simply less vulnerable to fraud and abuse.
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History cannot be reduced to a set of statistics and probabilities.
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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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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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We need, in effect, to make the phantom ‘lock-boxes’ around the trust fund real.
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No matter how skillful the trading scheme, over the long haul, abnormal returns are sustained only through abnormal exposure to risk.
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I have found no greater satisfaction than achieving success through honest dealing and strict adherence to the view that, for you to gain, those you deal with should gain as well.
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Since I’ve become a central banker, I’ve learned to mumble with great incoherence.
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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 didn’t believe in absolutes, moral or otherwise. If I couldn’t prove a proposition with facts and figures, it was without merit.
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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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