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’.
ALAN GREENSPANI’m a better economist than I was a sax player.
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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Excessive optimism sows the seeds of its own reversal.
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Gold still represents the ultimate form of payment in the world.
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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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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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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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If I’ve made myself clear, I’ve misspoken.
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I came to a stark realization: chronic surpluses could be almost as destabilizing as chronic deficits.
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We need, in effect, to make the phantom ‘lock-boxes’ around the trust fund real.
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And whatever their publicized angst over Saddam Hussein’s ‘weapons of mass destruction.
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If one grasps this, one has no difficulty in understanding the statists’ antagonism toward the gold standard.
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Without calling the overall national issue a bubble, it’s pretty clear that it’s an unsustainable underlying pattern.
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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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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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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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And the percentage changes in wage rates would be the same for all job grades.
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