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We're a democratic society. S...

We're a democratic society. Shutting down the government should not be on the agenda.

Alan Greenspan 158 quotes

What I see in the corporate s...

What I see in the corporate sector is very clearly an issue of a major shortfall in the issue of, what some people call confidence, but whatever you want to call it. Clearly people are looking out in the very distant future and they are saying that it is too complex.

Alan Greenspan 158 quotes

Diplomacy is really far less ...

Diplomacy is really far less important than the stock movements within Russia.

Alan Greenspan 158 quotes

If prices go down, we will ha...

If prices go down, we will have problems - problems in the sense of spillover to other areas.

Alan Greenspan 158 quotes

Since I've become a central b...

Since I've become a central banker, I've learned to mumble with great incoherence. If I seem unduly clear to you, you must have misunderstood what I said.

Alan Greenspan 158 quotes

Capitalism is based on self-i...

Capitalism is based on self-interest and self-esteem; it holds integrity and trustworthiness as cardinal virtues and makes them pay off in the marketplace, thus demanding that men survive by means of virtue, not vices. 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.

Alan Greenspan 158 quotes

Skilled shortages in America ...

Skilled shortages in America exist because we are shielding our skilled labor force from world competition. [Visa quotas] have been substituted for the wage pricing mechanism. 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. Eliminating such restrictions would reduce at least some of the income inequality.

Alan Greenspan 158 quotes

This decade is strewn with ex...

This decade is strewn with examples of bright people who thought they built a better mousetrap that could consistently extract abnormal returns from the financial markets. Some succeed for a time. But while there may occasionally be mis-configurations among market prices that allow abnormal returns, they do not persist.

Alan Greenspan 158 quotes

We can guarantee cash benefit...

We can guarantee cash benefits as far out and at whatever size you like, but we cannot guarantee their purchasing power.

Alan Greenspan 158 quotes

But how do we know when irrat...

But how do we know when irrational exuberance has unduly escalated asset values, which then become subject to unexpected and prolonged contractions as they have in Japan over the past decade?

Alan Greenspan 158 quotes

I am saddened that it is poli...

I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil.

Alan Greenspan 158 quotes

I do not deny that many appea...

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. But material success is possible in this world and far more satisfying when it comes without exploiting others.

Alan Greenspan 158 quotes

I have long argued that payin...

I have long argued that paying down the national debt is beneficial for the economy: it keeps interest rates lower than they otherwise would be and frees savings to finance increases in the capital stock, thereby boosting productivity and real incomes.

Alan Greenspan 158 quotes

It has been my experience tha...

It has been my experience that competency in mathematics, both in numerical manipulations and in understanding its conceptual foundations, enhances a person's ability to handle the more ambiguous and qualitative relationships that dominate our day-to-day financial decision-making

Alan Greenspan 158 quotes

I have one other issue I'd li...

I have one other issue I'd like to throw on the table. I hesitate to do it, but let me tell you some of the issues that are involved here. If we are dealing with psychology, then the thermometers one uses to measure it have an effect. I was raising the question on the side with Governor Mullins of what would happen if the Treasury sold a little gold in this market. There's an interesting question here because if the gold price broke in that context, the thermometer would not be just a measuring tool. It would basically affect the underlying psychology.

Alan Greenspan 158 quotes

The recent evidence increasin...

The recent evidence increasingly suggests that an economic expansion is already well under way, although an array of influences unique to this business cycle seems likely to moderate its speed.

Alan Greenspan 158 quotes

The guiding purpose of the go...

The guiding purpose of the government regulator is to prevent rather than to create something.

Alan Greenspan 158 quotes

Now, I only play very occasio...

Now, I only play very occasionally, and in fact, more piano than clarinet or sax.

Alan Greenspan 158 quotes

Well, you probably will alway...

Well, you probably will always believe there should be laws against fraud, and I don't think there is any need for a law against fraud.

Alan Greenspan 158 quotes

As long as we issue fiat curr...

As long as we issue fiat currency, I see no alternative to a legal tender law.

Alan Greenspan 158 quotes

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