Corruption, embezzlement, fraud, these are all characteristics which exist everywhere.
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.
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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Now, I only play very occasionally, and in fact, more piano than clarinet or sax.
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Even though some down payments are borrowed, it would take a large, and historically most unusual, fall in home prices to wipe out a significant part of home equity.
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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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I’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.
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History demonstrates that participants in financial markets are susceptible to waves of optimism.
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Since I’ve become a central banker, I’ve learned to mumble with great incoherence.
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I guess I should warn you, if I turn out to be particularly clear, you’ve probably misunderstood what I’ve said.
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It has been my experience that competency in mathematics, both in numerical manipulations and in understanding its conceptual foundations.
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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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[Republicans] swapped principle for power. They ended up with neither. They deserved to lose.
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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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It’s not for anything other than an escape from what is perceived to be a fiat money system, paper money, that seems to be deteriorating.
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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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They seem to sense… that gold and economic freedom are inseparable.
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Then fear hits, and it comes down very sharply. When I started to look at that.
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