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.
ALAN GREENSPANWell, you probably will always believe there should be laws against fraud, and I don’t think there is any need for a law against fraud.
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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So there is no reason to suspect that the actual process of boosting rates would be any different.
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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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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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Since I’ve become a central banker, I’ve learned to mumble with great incoherence.
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Significantly opening up immigration to skilled workers solves two problems.
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Fear and euphoria are dominant forces, and fear is many multiples the size of euphoria. Bubbles go up very slowly as euphoria builds.
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Senator, we are groping for understanding, the knowledge you assume I possess doesn’t exist’.
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The arts develop skills and habits of mind that are important for workers in the new economy of ideas.
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Rules cannot take the place of character.
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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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There is no safe store of value. Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the hidden confiscation of wealth.
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Anything that we can do to raise personal savings is very much in the interest of this country.
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I’ve been in and out of Wall Street since 1949, and I’ve never seen the type of animosity between government and Wall Street. And I’m not sure where it comes from, but I suspect it’s got to do with a general schism in this society which is really becoming ever more destructive.
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I have long argued that paying down the national debt is beneficial for the economy.
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But rules cannot substitute for character.
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