Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the confiscation of wealth.If I seem unduly clear to you, you must have misunderstood what I said.
ALAN GREENSPANI’m a better economist than I was a sax player.
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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We cannot rule out a situation in which a preemptive policy tightening becomes necessary.
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I believe that the general growth in large [financial] institutions have occurred in the context of an underlying structure of markets in which many of the larger risks are dramatically — I should say, fully — hedged.
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It is this superlatively moral system that the welfare statists propose to improve upon by means of preventative law, snooping bureaucrats, and the chronic goad of fear.
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The companies could hire the educated workers they need. And those workers would compete with high-income people, driving more income equality.
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Regulation of derivatives transactions that are privately negotiated by professionals is unnecessary.
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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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I do not deny that many appear to have succeeded in a material way by cutting corners and by manipulating associates, both in their professional and in their personal lives.
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Unfortunately, Senator, nobody knows where the next innovative idea is coming from.
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In general, corruption tends to exist whenever governments have favors to extend, or something to sell.
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Institutions of the newer participants in global finance had not been tested, until recently…recent crisis have underscored certain financial structure vulnerabilities that are not readily assuaged in the short run.
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At the risk of some oversimplification, if the skill composition of our work force meshed fully with the needs of our increasingly complex capital-stock, wage-skill differentials would be stable.
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History cannot be reduced to a set of statistics and probabilities.
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…our market system depends critically on trust-trust in the word of our colleagues and trust in the word of those with whom we do business.
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Greenspan, who knew so much more than most, knew far less than most supposed.
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By far the most significant event in finance during the past decade has been the extraordinary development and expansion of financial derivatives.
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