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 GREENSPANIt’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.
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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No one has ever eliminated any of that stuff.
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The number one problem in today’s generation and economy is the lack of financial literacy.
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Political decisions are never random and will always lose out to innovative alternatives.
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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 arts develop skills and habits of mind that are important for workers in the new economy of ideas.
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This is the reason that history has not dealt kindly with the aftermath of protracted periods of low risk premiums.
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Corruption, embezzlement, fraud, these are all characteristics which exist everywhere.
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I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil.
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Whatever you tax you get less of.
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Excessive optimism sows the seeds of its own reversal.
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Gold stands in the way of this insidious process. It stands as a protector of property rights.
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If we allow terrorism to undermine our freedom of action, we could reverse at least part of the palpable gains achieved by postwar globalization. It is incumbent upon us not to allow that to happen.
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But rules cannot substitute for character.
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There are no easy choices. Easy choices are long gone.
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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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