If I say something which you understand fully in this regard, I probably made a mistake.
ALAN GREENSPANAmateurs want to be right. Professionals want to make money.
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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The tub helps me relax, and it’s a great place to read.
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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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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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The true measure of a career is to be able to be content, even proud, that you succeeded through your own endeavors without leaving a trail of casualties in your wake.
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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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In the process we have created [a] privileged elite whose incomes are being supported at non-competitively high levels by immigration quotas on skilled professionals.
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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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And whatever their publicized angst over Saddam Hussein’s ‘weapons of mass destruction.
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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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Amateurs want to be right. Professionals want to make money.
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Then fear hits, and it comes down very sharply. When I started to look at that.
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We can see that in the inverse relationship exhibited by price/earnings ratios and the rate of inflation in the past.
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I don’t know where the stock market is going, but I will say this, that if it continues higher, this will do more to stimulate the economy than anything we’ve been talking about today or anything anybody else was talking about.
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I have long argued that paying down the national debt is beneficial for the economy.
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If prices go down, we will have problems – problems in the sense of spillover to other areas.
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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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Significantly opening up immigration to skilled workers solves two problems.
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If I seem unduly clear to you, you must have misunderstood what I said.
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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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Political decisions are never random and will always lose out to innovative alternatives.
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Senator, if I seem clear to you, you must have misunderstood me’.
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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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Gold still represents the ultimate form of payment in the world.
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Any informed borrower is simply less vulnerable to fraud and abuse.
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Although the outlook is clouded by a number of uncertainties, the central tendencies of the projections .. imply continued good economic performance in the United States.
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There is no evidence that the business cycle has been repealed.
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