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.
ALAN GREENSPANIf one grasps this, one has no difficulty in understanding the statists’ antagonism toward the gold standard.
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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Unfortunately, Senator, nobody knows where the next innovative idea is coming from.
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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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The number of mistakes I have made are just awesome. There is no number large enough to account for that.
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No one has ever eliminated any of that stuff.
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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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Protectionism will do little to create jobs and if foreigners retaliate, we will surely lose jobs.
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Senator, if I seem clear to you, you must have misunderstood me’.
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The companies could hire the educated workers they need. And those workers would compete with high-income people, driving more income equality.
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There is no evidence that the business cycle has been repealed.
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We cannot rule out a situation in which a preemptive policy tightening becomes necessary.
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And she always has so much fun doing it. We make a good team.
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Anyone willing to do what is required to become president of the United States is thereby barred from taking that office. I’m only half joking
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I cannot conceive of a politically feasible solution to this problem which will overdo cutting the deficit, where overdoing means harming the economy. It might be technically possible, but it is not realistic.
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Then fear hits, and it comes down very sharply. When I started to look at that.
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It seems superfluous to constrain trading in some of the newer derivatives and other innovative financial contracts of the past decade.
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