They then need to reach a judgment about the probabilities, costs, and benefits of the various possible outcomes under alternative choices for policy.
ALAN GREENSPANNo matter how skillful the trading scheme, over the long haul, abnormal returns are sustained only through abnormal exposure to risk.
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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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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Without the triggers, that tax cut is irreponsible fiscal policy. Eventually, I think that will be the consensus view.
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Corruption, embezzlement, fraud, these are all characteristics which exist everywhere.
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I was raising the question on the side with Governor Mullins of what would happen if the Treasury sold a little gold in this market.
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Any onset of increased investor caution elevates risk premiums and, as a consequence, lowers asset values and promotes the liquidation of the debt that supported higher asset prices.
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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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Developing protectionism regarding trade and our reluctance to place fiscal policy on a more sustainable path are threatening what may well be our most valued policy asset.
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How do we know when irrational exuberance has unduly escalated asset values?
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American and British authorities were also concerned about violence in an area that harbors a resource indispensable for the functioning of the word economy.
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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 use of a growing array of derivatives and the related application of more-sophisticated approaches to measuring and managing risk are key factors underpinning the greater resilience of our largest financial institutions…
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Credit-default swaps, I think, have serious problems associated with them.
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Since I’ve become a central banker, I’ve learned to mumble with great incoherence.
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Need to consider not only the most likely future path for the economy but also the distribution of possible outcomes about that path.
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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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