When trust is lost, a nation’s ability to transact business is palpably undermined.
ALAN GREENSPANThe only sustainable way to increase demand for vacant houses is to spur the formation of new households. Admitting more skilled immigrants, who tend to earn enough to buy homes, would accomplish that while paying other dividends to the U.S. economy.
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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If you get beyond the political rhetoric [and assembled a group to solve Social Security] it would take them 15 minutes. It would take them 15 minutes only because 10 minutes was used for pleasantries.
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The tub helps me relax, and it’s a great place to read.
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The only effective regulation lies in the propensity of customers to choose alternatives, of investors to move their funds elsewhere and of labour to acquire technical skills’.
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Any informed borrower is simply less vulnerable to fraud and abuse.
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Credit-default swaps, I think, have serious problems associated with them.
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And whatever their publicized angst over Saddam Hussein’s ‘weapons of mass destruction.
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They then need to reach a judgment about the probabilities, costs, and benefits of the various possible outcomes under alternative choices for policy.
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Political decisions are never random and will always lose out to innovative alternatives.
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[Republicans] swapped principle for power. They ended up with neither. They deserved to lose.
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It’s a bubble. It has to have intrinsic value. You have to really stretch your imagination to infer what the intrinsic value of Bitcoin is. I haven’t been able to do it. Maybe somebody else can.
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I didn’t believe in absolutes, moral or otherwise. If I couldn’t prove a proposition with facts and figures, it was without merit.
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What an ideology is is a conceptual framework with the way people deal with reality.
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These days, even out of office, I still read economic reports.
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The need for values is inbred. Their content is not.
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History has not dealt kindly with the aftermath of protracted periods of low risk premiums.
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