How do we know when irrational exuberance has unduly escalated asset values?
ALAN GREENSPANI’m a plain soap kind of guy.
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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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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The current financial crisis in the US is likely to be judged in retrospect as the most wrenching since the end of the Second World War.
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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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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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Excessive optimism sows the seeds of its own reversal.
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Credit-default swaps, I think, have serious problems associated with them.
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Yet deregulation set the stage for an enormous wave of creative destruction in the 1980s.
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Before I met Ayn Rand, I was a logical positivist, and accordingly,
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History cannot be reduced to a set of statistics and probabilities.
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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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The economy is turning, and credit comes in with a lag, .. To the extent that a number of small firms are finding it difficult to get the credit they need at a price they can afford, that’s likely to change for the better.
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The worst have failed; investors no longer fund them and are not likely to in the future.
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Fiat money in extremis is accepted by nobody. Gold is always accepted.
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Greenspan, who knew so much more than most, knew far less than most supposed.
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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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