Revolutions are something you see only in retrospect.
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.
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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Excessive optimism shows the seeds of its own reversal in the form of imbalances that tend to grow over time.
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Since I’ve become a central banker, I’ve learned to mumble with great incoherence.
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If you think you understand what I am saying you do not understand what I am saying.
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Amateurs want to be right. Professionals want to make money.
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I have long argued that paying down the national debt is beneficial for the economy.
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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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Unfortunately, Senator, nobody knows where the next innovative idea is coming from.
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History has not dealt kindly with the aftermath of protracted periods of low risk premiums.
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Excessive optimism sows the seeds of its own reversal.
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It keeps interest rates lower than they otherwise would be and frees savings to finance increases in the capital stock, thereby boosting productivity and real incomes.
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I love facts and figures. It’s like following a detective story, piecing together what’s going on in the economy.
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I love to play tennis and golf, listen to music, watch baseball and root for the Redskins.
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Clearly, sustained low inflation implies less uncertainty about the future, and lower risk premiums imply higher prices of stocks and other earning assets.
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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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What an ideology is is a conceptual framework with the way people deal with reality.
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