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From Quotes by Alan Greenspan
- I've always argued that this country has benefited immensely from the fact that we draw people from all over the world.
- 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…
- Senator, we are groping for understanding, the knowledge you assume I possess doesn't exist' - 'The only effective regulation lies in the propensity of customers…
- Gold, unlike all other commodities, is a currency...and the major thrust in the demand for gold is not for jewelry. It's not for anything other…
- We ought to be opening up our borders to skilled labour from all parts of the world because [the state of the world is as…
- What we have found over the years in the marketplace is that derivatives have been an extraordinarily useful vehicle to transfer risk from those who…
- In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store of value.
- I've been in and out of Wall Street since 1949, and I've never seen the type of animosity between government and Wall Street. And I'm…
- The abandonment of the gold standard made it possible for the welfare statists to use the banking system as a means to an unlimited expansion…
- I get so engaged when I have a problem you cannot solve that I just cannot break away from what I am doing - I…
- Finance is wholly different from the rest the economy.
- Chinese productivity is the highest in the world but the way they do it is by borrowing the technology from abroad, either by joint ventures…
- Most high-income people in our country do not realize that their incomes are being subsidized by their protection from competition from highly skilled people who…
- The central focus of what we are doing at the Fed is to keep inflation from accelerating - and preferably decelerating.
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