Fear and euphoria are dominant forces, and fear is many multiples the size of euphoria. Bubbles go up very slowly as euphoria builds.
ALAN GREENSPANThese days, even out of office, I still read economic reports.
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Revolutions are something you see only in retrospect.
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By far the most significant event in finance during the past decade has been the extraordinary development and expansion of financial derivatives.
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Fiat money in extremis is accepted by nobody. Gold is always accepted.
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People dont realize that we cannot forecast the future. What we can do is have probabilities of what causes what, but thats as far as we go. And Ive had a very successful career as a forecaster, starting in 1948 forward.
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The increased flexibility of our economy, which has fostered our extraordinary resilience to shocks.
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Improvements in lending practices driven by information technology have enabled lenders to reach out to households with previously unrecognized borrowing capacities.
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Rules cannot take the place of character.
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When trust is lost, a nation’s ability to transact business is palpably undermined.
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I have one other issue I’d like to throw on the table. I hesitate to do it, but let me tell you some of the issues that are involved here.
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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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We ought to be opening up our borders to skilled labour from all parts of the world because [the state of the world is as follows: ].
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If I seem unduly clear to you, you must have misunderstood what I said.
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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 United States can pay any debt it has because we can always print money to do that. So there is zero probability of default.
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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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