If you think you understand what I am saying you do not understand what I am saying.
ALAN GREENSPANI was raising the question on the side with Governor Mullins of what would happen if the Treasury sold a little gold in this market.
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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I’ve always argued that this country has benefited immensely from the fact that we draw people from all over the world.
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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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Crony capitalism is essentially a condition in which… public officials are giving favours to people in the private sector in payment of political favours.
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I think that real pressure is going to occur not by the initiation by the Federal Reserve, but by the markets themselves.
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Senator, if I seem clear to you, you must have misunderstood me’.
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Significantly opening up immigration to skilled workers solves two problems.
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We need, in effect, to make the phantom ‘lock-boxes’ around the trust fund real.
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We as central bankers need not be concerned if a collapsing financial asset bubble does not threaten to impair the real economy, its production, jobs and price stability.
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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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In the process we have created [a] privileged elite whose incomes are being supported at non-competitively high levels by immigration quotas on skilled professionals.
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It’s a bubble. It has to have intrinsic value. You have to really stretch your imagination to infer what the intrinsic value of Bitcoin is. I haven’t been able to do it. Maybe somebody else can.
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If I say something which you understand fully in this regard, I probably made a mistake.
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If we allow terrorism to undermine our freedom of action, we could reverse at least part of the palpable gains achieved by postwar globalization. It is incumbent upon us not to allow that to happen.
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Everyone has one. You have to, to exist you need an ideology. The question is whether it is accurate or not.
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The gut-feel of the 55-year old trader is more important than the mathematical elegance of the 25-year old genius.
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