What an ideology is is a conceptual framework with the way people deal with reality.
ALAN GREENSPANAnd whatever their publicized angst over Saddam Hussein’s ‘weapons of mass destruction.
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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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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The number one problem in today’s generation and economy is the lack of financial literacy.
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Those of us who have looked to the self-interest of lending institutions to protect shareholders’ equity are in a state of shocked disbelief.
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Then fear hits, and it comes down very sharply. When I started to look at that.
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It seems superfluous to constrain trading in some of the newer derivatives and other innovative financial contracts of the past decade.
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If all currencies are moving up or down together, the question is: relative to what? Gold is the canary in the coal mine.
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Capitalism is based on self-interest and self-esteem; it holds integrity and trustworthiness as cardinal virtues and makes them pay off in the marketplace, thus demanding that men survive by means of virtue, not vices.
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Without the triggers, that tax cut is irreponsible fiscal policy. Eventually, I think that will be the consensus view.
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I’m a plain soap kind of guy.
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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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The United States can pay any debt it has because we can always print money to do that. So there is zero probability of default.
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If we are dealing with psychology, then the thermometers one uses to measure it have an effect.
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Many of those who purchased their residence more than a year ago have equity buffers in their homes adequate to withstand any price decline other than a very deep one.
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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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I was a fairly good amateur musician, and I was an average professional. But the one thing I saw was that the big band business was fading.
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