Protectionism will do little to create jobs and if foreigners retaliate, we will surely lose jobs.
ALAN GREENSPANI don’t know where the stock market is going, but I will say this, that if it continues higher, this will do more to stimulate the economy than anything we’ve been talking about today or anything anybody else was talking about.
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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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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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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If one grasps this, one has no difficulty in understanding the statists’ antagonism toward the gold standard.
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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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I love facts and figures. It’s like following a detective story, piecing together what’s going on in the economy.
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An almost hysterical antagonism toward the gold standard is one issue which unites statists of all persuasions.
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If I say something which you understand fully in this regard, I probably made a mistake.
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In the process we have created [a] privileged elite whose incomes are being supported at non-competitively high levels by immigration quotas on skilled professionals.
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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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Indeed, better risk management may be the only truly necessary element of success in banking.
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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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The probability of ten consecutive heads is 0.1 percent; thus, when you have millions of coin tossers, or investors, in the end there will be thousands of very successful practitioners of coin tossing, or stock picking.
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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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Was sort of intellectually shocked. Contagion is the critical phenomenon which causes the thing to fall apart.
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Significantly opening up immigration to skilled workers solves two problems.
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The guiding purpose of the government regulator is to prevent rather than to create something.
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Senator, we are groping for understanding, the knowledge you assume I possess doesn’t exist’.
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Gold, unlike all other commodities, is a currency…and the major thrust in the demand for gold is not for jewelry.
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I’m a better economist than I was a sax player.
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In an economy that already has lost some momentum, one must remain alert to the possibility that greater caution and weakening asset values in financial markets could signal or precipitate an excessive softening in household and business spending.
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What an ideology is is a conceptual framework with the way people deal with reality.
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They then need to reach a judgment about the probabilities, costs, and benefits of the various possible outcomes under alternative choices for policy.
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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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We cannot rule out a situation in which a preemptive policy tightening becomes necessary.
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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.
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