The arts develop skills and habits of mind that are important for workers in the new economy of ideas.
ALAN GREENSPANNow, I only play very occasionally, and in fact, more piano than clarinet or sax.
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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Revolutions are something you see only in retrospect.
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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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All taxes are a drag on economic growth. It’s only a question of degree.
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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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Fiat money in extremis is accepted by nobody. Gold is always accepted.
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No one has ever eliminated any of that stuff.
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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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Recent episodes in which Fed officials hinted at a shift toward higher interest rates have unleashed significant volatility in markets.
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Yet deregulation set the stage for an enormous wave of creative destruction in the 1980s.
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Even though some down payments are borrowed, it would take a large, and historically most unusual, fall in home prices to wipe out a significant part of home equity.
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I have long argued that paying down the national debt is beneficial for the economy.
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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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The need for values is inbred. Their content is not.
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It keeps interest rates lower than they otherwise would be and frees savings to finance increases in the capital stock, thereby boosting productivity and real incomes.
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It is this superlatively moral system that the welfare statists propose to improve upon by means of preventative law, snooping bureaucrats, and the chronic goad of fear.
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