At the risk of some oversimplification, if the skill composition of our work force meshed fully with the needs of our increasingly complex capital-stock, wage-skill differentials would be stable.
ALAN GREENSPANIt is this superlatively moral system that the welfare statists propose to improve upon by means of preventative law, snooping bureaucrats, and the chronic goad of fear.
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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If I seem unduly clear to you, you must have misunderstood what I said.
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The only sustainable way to increase demand for vacant houses is to spur the formation of new households. Admitting more skilled immigrants, who tend to earn enough to buy homes, would accomplish that while paying other dividends to the U.S. economy.
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We need, in effect, to make the phantom ‘lock-boxes’ around the trust fund real.
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The United States can pay any debt it has because we can always print money to do that. So there is zero probability of default.
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Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the confiscation of wealth.If I seem unduly clear to you, you must have misunderstood what I said.
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They seem to sense… that gold and economic freedom are inseparable.
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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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No one has ever eliminated any of that stuff.
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It is decidedly not true that “nice guys finish last,” as that highly original American baseball philosopher, Leo Durocher, was alleged to have said.
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Greenspan, who knew so much more than most, knew far less than most supposed.
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I think that real pressure is going to occur not by the initiation by the Federal Reserve, but by the markets themselves.
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Given our inevitably incomplete knowledge about key structural aspects of our ever-changing economy and the sometimes asymmetric costs or benefits of particular outcomes, a central bank.
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Any informed borrower is simply less vulnerable to fraud and abuse.
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I have long argued that paying down the national debt is beneficial for the economy.
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Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the ‘hidden’ confiscation of wealth.
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