Political decisions are never random and will always lose out to innovative alternatives.
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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The free lunch has still to be invented.
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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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We may be in a rapidly evolving international financial system with all the bells and whistles of the so-called new economy. But the old-economy rules of prudence are as formidable as ever. We violate them at our own peril.
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Senator, we are groping for understanding, the knowledge you assume I possess doesn’t exist’.
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Such caution seems especially warranted with regard to the sharp rise in equity prices during the past two years. These gains have obviously raised questions of sustainability.
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Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the confiscation of wealth.If I seem unduly clear to you, you must have misunderstood what I said.
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We can see that in the inverse relationship exhibited by price/earnings ratios and the rate of inflation in the past.
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I’m a plain soap kind of guy.
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Rules cannot take the place of character.
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As long as we issue fiat currency, I see no alternative to a legal tender law.
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Although the outlook is clouded by a number of uncertainties, the central tendencies of the projections .. imply continued good economic performance in the United States.
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The abandonment of the gold standard made it possible for the welfare statists to use the banking system as a means to an unlimited expansion of credit.
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And the percentage changes in wage rates would be the same for all job grades.
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Significantly opening up immigration to skilled workers solves two problems.
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Protectionism will do little to create jobs and if foreigners retaliate, we will surely lose jobs.
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