To succeed, you will soon learn, as I did, the importance of a solid foundation in the basics of education – literacy, both verbal and numerical, and communication skills.
ALAN GREENSPANTo succeed, you will soon learn, as I did, the importance of a solid foundation in the basics of education – literacy, both verbal and numerical, and communication skills.
ALAN GREENSPANIt’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.
ALAN GREENSPAN[Republicans] swapped principle for power. They ended up with neither. They deserved to lose.
ALAN GREENSPANRevolutions are something you see only in retrospect.
ALAN GREENSPANI’m a better economist than I was a sax player.
ALAN GREENSPANNow, I only play very occasionally, and in fact, more piano than clarinet or sax.
ALAN GREENSPANThey seem to sense… that gold and economic freedom are inseparable.
ALAN GREENSPANAnd the percentage changes in wage rates would be the same for all job grades.
ALAN GREENSPANI’ve been in and out of Wall Street since 1949, and I’ve never seen the type of animosity between government and Wall Street. And I’m not sure where it comes from, but I suspect it’s got to do with a general schism in this society which is really becoming ever more destructive.
ALAN GREENSPANDeficit 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 GREENSPANFear and euphoria are dominant forces, and fear is many multiples the size of euphoria. Bubbles go up very slowly as euphoria builds.
ALAN GREENSPANAny informed borrower is simply less vulnerable to fraud and abuse.
ALAN GREENSPANThe Iraq War is largely about oil.
ALAN GREENSPANThere are no easy choices. Easy choices are long gone.
ALAN GREENSPANCorruption, embezzlement, fraud, these are all characteristics which exist everywhere.
ALAN GREENSPANI 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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