I love to play tennis and golf, listen to music, watch baseball and root for the Redskins.
ALAN GREENSPANThese days, even out of office, I still read economic reports.
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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Market financed withdrawals of home equity in recent years.
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There are no easy choices. Easy choices are long gone.
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But how do we know when irrational exuberance has unduly escalated asset values, which then become subject to unexpected and prolonged contractions as they have in Japan over the past decade?
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Protectionism will do little to create jobs and if foreigners retaliate, we will surely lose jobs.
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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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I cannot conceive of a politically feasible solution to this problem which will overdo cutting the deficit, where overdoing means harming the economy. It might be technically possible, but it is not realistic.
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I don’t know where the stock market is going, but I will say this, that if it continues higher, this will do more to stimulate the economy than anything we’ve been talking about today or anything anybody else was talking about.
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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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Corruption, embezzlement, fraud, these are all characteristics which exist everywhere.
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I must say, I never expected to see the day where I would be talking about anything other than reducing the debt, I’m running into the tyranny of zero, which is where you can’t reduce (the debt) any more
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The guiding purpose of the government regulator is to prevent rather than to create something.
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Significantly opening up immigration to skilled workers solves two problems.
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If I seem unduly clear to you, you must have misunderstood what I said.
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We can guarantee cash benefits as far out and at whatever size you like, but we cannot guarantee their purchasing power.
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Credit-default swaps, I think, have serious problems associated with them.
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