The tub helps me relax, and it’s a great place to read.
ALAN GREENSPANWhatever you tax you get less of.
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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Excessive optimism sows the seeds of its own reversal.
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Without calling the overall national issue a bubble, it’s pretty clear that it’s an unsustainable underlying pattern.
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Was sort of intellectually shocked. Contagion is the critical phenomenon which causes the thing to fall apart.
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Excessive optimism shows the seeds of its own reversal in the form of imbalances that tend to grow over time.
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Gold, unlike all other commodities, is a currency…and the major thrust in the demand for gold is not for jewelry.
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The number of mistakes I have made are just awesome. There is no number large enough to account for that.
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But rules cannot substitute for character.
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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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There is nothing to guarantee the superior judgment, knowledge, and integrity of an inspector or a bureaucrat-and the deadly consequences of entrusting him with arbitrary power are obvious.
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It is regrettably the way human nature functions, whether we like it or not. What successful economies do is keep it to a minimum.
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I have long argued that paying down the national debt is beneficial for the economy.
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But material success is possible in this world and far more satisfying when it comes without exploiting others.
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The gut-feel of the 55-year old trader is more important than the mathematical elegance of the 25-year old genius.
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If you think you understand what I am saying you do not understand what I am saying.
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The more flexible an economy, the greater its ability to self-correct in response to inevitable, often unanticipated, disturbances and thus to contain the size and consequences of cyclical imbalances.
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