The increased flexibility of our economy, which has fostered our extraordinary resilience to shocks.
ALAN GREENSPANI’m a plain soap kind of guy.
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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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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And whatever their publicized angst over Saddam Hussein’s ‘weapons of mass destruction.
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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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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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I have one other issue I’d like to throw on the table. I hesitate to do it, but let me tell you some of the issues that are involved here.
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Remember what we’re looking at. Gold is a currency. It is still, by all evidence, a premier currency, that no fiat currency, including the dollar, can match.
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If all currencies are moving up or down together, the question is: relative to what? Gold is the canary in the coal mine.
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American consumers might benefit if lenders provided greater mortgage product alternatives to the traditional fixed-rate mortgage.
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Regulation of derivatives transactions that are privately negotiated by professionals is unnecessary.
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A decline in the national housing price level would need to be substantial to trigger a significant rise in foreclosures, because the vast majority of homeowners have built up substantial equity in their homes despite large mortgage.
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No matter how skillful the trading scheme, over the long haul, abnormal returns are sustained only through abnormal exposure to risk.
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It signals problems with respect to currency markets. Central banks should pay attention to it.
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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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Significantly opening up immigration to skilled workers solves two problems.
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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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