Which Quotes by Alan Greenspan

8 Which quotes by Alan Greenspan

Greenspan’s analyses often parse the right levers for growth. This short group of eight quotes shares his perspective on which policies steer markets.

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I stated that I'm a libertarian Republican, which means I believe in a series of issues, such as smaller government, constraint on…

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What a sound money system does is to stabilize all the elements in it, and reduces the uncertainty that people confront. And…

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I always believed in animal spirits. It's not their existence that is new. It's the fact that they are not random events,…

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The only way you get economic progress, real standards of living moving higher, is to have the savings of the society continuously…

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Every economy exists, no matter what the level of democracy, has elements of crony capitalism. It's - given human nature and given…

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I do not understand where the backing of Bitcoin is coming from. There is no fundamental issue of capabilities of repaying it…

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It's hard to tell which assets will be toxic. The best way to ensure that only shareholders and banks feel it is…

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Manufacturing capacity is not a rigid level against which one bounces. When you are dealing with a world economy, with a flexibility…

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Crony capitalism is essentially a condition in which... public officials are giving favours to people in the private sector in payment of political favours.

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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,…

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To succeed, you will soon learn, as I did, the importance of a solid foundation in the basics of education - literacy, both verbal…

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I've always argued that this country has benefited immensely from the fact that we draw people from all over the world.

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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…

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Before I met Ayn Rand, I was a logical positivist, and accordingly, I didn't believe in absolutes, moral or otherwise. If I couldn't prove…

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Skilled shortages in America exist because we are shielding our skilled labor force from world competition. [Visa quotas] have been substituted for the wage…

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A decline in the national housing price level would need to be substantial to trigger a significant rise in foreclosures, because the vast majority…

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Although the outlook is clouded by a number of uncertainties, the central tendencies of the projections .. imply continued good economic performance in the…

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At the outset of the creation of the euro in 1999, it was expected that the southern eurozone economies would behave like those in…

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We may be in a rapidly evolving international financial system with all the bells and whistles of the so-called new economy. But the old-economy…

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

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“government regulation cannot substitute for individual integrity.”

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...our market system depends critically on trust-trust in the word of our colleagues and trust in the word of those with whom we do…

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It's hard to overemphasize how important Ford's deregulation was. True, most of the benefits took years to unfold-rail freight rates, for example hardly budged…

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