If I seem unduly clear to you, you must have misunderstood what I said.
ALAN GREENSPANIf we are to remain preeminent in transforming knowledge into economic value, America’s system of higher education must remain the world’s leader in generating scientific and technological breakthrough, and in meeting the challenge to educate workers.
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We may be in a rapidly evolving international financial system with all the bells and whistles of the so-called new economy. But the old-economy rules of prudence are as formidable as ever. We violate them at our own peril.
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Excessive optimism sows the seeds of its own reversal.
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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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If we are dealing with psychology, then the thermometers one uses to measure it have an effect.
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Some succeed for a time. But while there may occasionally be mis-configurations among market prices that allow abnormal returns, they do not persist.
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I have long argued that paying down the national debt is beneficial for the economy.
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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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But how do we know when irrational exuberance has unduly escalated asset values, which then become subject to unexpected and prolonged contractions as they have in Japan over the past decade?
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This decade is strewn with examples of bright people who thought they built a better mousetrap that could consistently extract abnormal returns from the financial markets.
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All taxes are a drag on economic growth. It’s only a question of degree.
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There is no safe store of value. Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the hidden confiscation of wealth.
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Derivatives have permitted the unbundling of financial risks.
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American and British authorities were also concerned about violence in an area that harbors a resource indispensable for the functioning of the word economy.
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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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Need to consider not only the most likely future path for the economy but also the distribution of possible outcomes about that path.
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