History cannot be reduced to a set of statistics and probabilities.
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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There are no easy choices. Easy choices are long gone.
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We ought to be opening up our borders to skilled labour from all parts of the world because [the state of the world is as follows: ].
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I do not deny that many appear to have succeeded in a material way by cutting corners and by manipulating associates, both in their professional and in their personal lives.
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Many of those who purchased their residence more than a year ago have equity buffers in their homes adequate to withstand any price decline other than a very deep one.
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The worst have failed; investors no longer fund them and are not likely to in the future.
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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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In general, corruption tends to exist whenever governments have favors to extend, or something to sell.
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Derivatives have permitted the unbundling of financial risks.
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As long as we issue fiat currency, I see no alternative to a legal tender law.
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Gold stands in the way of this insidious process. It stands as a protector of property rights.
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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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Cash is available and we should use that in larger amounts, as is necessary, to solve the problems of the stress of this.
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Market financed withdrawals of home equity in recent years.
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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 we were to do that we would increase the supply of skilled workers that our schools have been unable to create and as a consequence of that we would lower the average wage of skills and reduce the degree of income inequality in this country.
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