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Greenspan, who knew so much more than most, knew far less than most supposed.

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I must say, I never expected to see the day where I would be talking about anything other than reducing the debt, I'm running into the tyranny of zero, which is where you can't reduce (the debt) any more

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The United States can pay any debt it has because we can always print money to do that. So there is zero probability of default.

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We as central bankers need not be concerned if a collapsing financial asset bubble does not threaten to impair the real economy, its production, jobs and price stability.

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Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the confiscation of wealth.

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I believe that the general growth in large [financial] institutions have occurred in the context of an underlying structure of markets in which many of the larger risks are dramatically -- I should say, fully -- hedged.

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I was a good amateur but only an average professional. I soon realized that there was a limit to how far I could rise in the music business, so I left the band and enrolled at New York University.

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

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Without calling the overall national issue a bubble, it's pretty clear that it's an unsustainable underlying pattern.

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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 shouldn't be taking it to those who are willing to and are capable of doing so.

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

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I made a mistake in presuming that the self-interests of organisations, specifically banks and others, were such that they were best capable of protecting their own shareholders and their equity in the firms.

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No matter how skillful the trading scheme, over the long haul, abnormal returns are sustained only through abnormal exposure to risk.

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We cannot rule out a situation in which a preemptive policy tightening becomes necessary, ... Such caution seems especially warranted with regard to the sharp rise in equity prices during the past two years. These gains have obviously raised questions of sustainability.

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I came to a stark realization: chronic surpluses could be almost as destabilizing as chronic deficits.

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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 a proposition with facts and figures, it was without merit.

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Revolutions are something you see only in retrospect.

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There are no easy choices. Easy choices are long gone.

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The number one problem in today's generation and economy is the lack of financial literacy.

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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 and numerical, and communication skills.

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