I love to play tennis and golf, listen to music, watch baseball and root for the Redskins.
ALAN GREENSPANPeople dont realize that we cannot forecast the future. What we can do is have probabilities of what causes what, but thats as far as we go. And Ive had a very successful career as a forecaster, starting in 1948 forward.
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Anything that we can do to raise personal savings is very much in the interest of this country.
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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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All taxes are a drag on economic growth. It’s only a question of degree.
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It is regrettably the way human nature functions, whether we like it or not. What successful economies do is keep it to a minimum.
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When trust is lost, a nation’s ability to transact business is palpably undermined.
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The current financial crisis in the US is likely to be judged in retrospect as the most wrenching since the end of the Second World War.
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I’m not denying that monopolies are terrible things, but I am denying that it is readily easy to resolve them through legislation of that nature.
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Revolutions are something you see only in retrospect.
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Derivatives have permitted the unbundling of financial risks.
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And she always has so much fun doing it. We make a good team.
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I’m always amazed that my wife can handle different subjects – one day politics, the next day foreign policy.
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Before I met Ayn Rand, I was a logical positivist, and accordingly,
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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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Excessive optimism sows the seeds of its own reversal.
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It 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.
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