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: ].
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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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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Gold still represents the ultimate form of payment in the world.
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I was a fairly good amateur musician, and I was an average professional. But the one thing I saw was that the big band business was fading.
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To succeed, you will soon learn, as I did, the importance of a solid foundation in the basics of education – literacy, both verbal and numerical, and communication skills.
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If we were to do that we would increase the supply of skilled workers that our schools have been unable to create and as a consequence of that we would lower the average wage of skills and reduce the degree of income inequality in this country.
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I came to a stark realization: chronic surpluses could be almost as destabilizing as chronic deficits.
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Political decisions are never random and will always lose out to innovative alternatives.
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Market financed withdrawals of home equity in recent years.
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There’s an interesting question here because if the gold price broke in that context, the thermometer would not be just a measuring tool. It would basically affect the underlying psychology.
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I’m always amazed that my wife can handle different subjects – one day politics, the next day foreign policy.
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Given our inevitably incomplete knowledge about key structural aspects of our ever-changing economy and the sometimes asymmetric costs or benefits of particular outcomes, a central bank.
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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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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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It signals problems with respect to currency markets. Central banks should pay attention to it.
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I was a good amateur but only an average professional. I soon realized that there was a limit to how far I could rise in the music business, so I left the band and enrolled at New York University.
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