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Alan Greenspan

Anyone willing to do what is required to become president of the United States is thereby barred from taking that office. I’m only half joking
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Anyone Barred Country President Will Required
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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Country Decade Escalate Irrational Past Subject
Senator, we are groping for understanding, the knowledge you assume I possess doesn’t exist’.
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Assume Grop Knowledge Possess Exist Senator Understand
…our market system depends critically on trust-trust in the word of our colleagues and trust in the word of those with whom we do business.
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Colleagues Critical Depend Marlet System Trust World
While these tendencies were no doubt in train in the “old,” pre-1990s economy, they accelerated over the past decade as a number of technologies with their roots in the cumulative innovations of the past half-century began to yield dramatic economic returns.
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Accelerate Circumstance Dramatic Economic Innovation Offer Return Tendency Train
I don’t think it’s possible for the Fed to end its easy-money policies in a trouble-free manner.
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End Free Manner Money Policy Possible Think
We will have more crises and none of them will look like this because no two crises have anything in common except human nature.
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Anything Common Crise Human Like Look Nature
It’s hard to overemphasize how important Ford’s deregulation was. True, most of the benefits took years to unfold-rail freight rates, for example hardly budged at first.
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Benefit Deregulation Hard Important Look Overemphasize True Year
Without calling the overall national issue a bubble, it’s pretty clear that it’s an unsustainable underlying pattern.
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Buddle Call Clear Issue National Overall Pattern Pretty Unsustainable Without
I made a mistake in presuming that the self-interests of organisations, specifically banks and others, were such that they were best capable of protecting their own shareholders and their equity in the firms.
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Bank Equity Especially Interest Mistake Organisation Presume Self Share
It’s not for anything other than an escape from what is perceived to be a fiat money system, paper money, that seems to be deteriorating.
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Anything Deteriorate Escape Fiat Money Perceive Seem
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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All Always Argue Benefited Country Draw Fact Immensely Over People World
Enhances a person’s ability to handle the more ambiguous and qualitative relationships that dominate our day-to-day financial decision-making
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Ability Ambiguous Decision Dominate Enhance Financial Making Person Quantitative Relationship
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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Borrow Down Equity Historical Payment Significant Some Unusual Wipe
Such caution seems especially warranted with regard to the sharp rise in equity prices during the past two years. These gains have obviously raised questions of sustainability.
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Caution During Especially Past Price Regard Rise Sharp Two Warranted Year
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.
ALAN GREENSPAN

Arbitrary Death Guarantee Inspector Integrity Judgement Knowledge Nothing Superior

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