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If I say something which you understand fully in this regard, I probably made a mistake.

Alan Greenspan

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Alan Greenspan
Age: 98
Born: 1926
Born: March 6
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The true measure of a career is to be able to be content, even proud, that you succeeded through your own endeavors without leaving a trail of casualties in your wake.
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Any informed borrower is simply less vulnerable to fraud and abuse.
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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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We will have more crises and none of them will look like this because no two crises have anything in common except human nature.
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Excessive optimism sows the seeds of its own reversal.
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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. The worst have failed investors no longer fund them and are not likely to in the future.
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Without the triggers, that tax cut is irreponsible fiscal policy. Eventually, I think that will be the consensus view.
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We can guarantee cash benefits as far out and at whatever size you like, but we cannot guarantee their purchasing power.
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I love to play tennis and golf, listen to music, watch baseball and root for the Redskins.
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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 at first. Yet deregulation set the stage for an enormous wave of creative destruction in the 1980s.
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Nor can private counterparties restrict supplies of gold, another commodity whose derivatives are often traded over-the-counter, where central banks stand ready to lease gold in increasing quantities should the price rise.
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If you think you understand what I am saying you do not understand what I am saying.
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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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I'm a plain soap kind of guy.
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While local economies may experience significant price imbalances, a national severe price distortion seems most unlikely in the United States, given its size and diversity.
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An almost hysterical antagonism toward the gold standard is one issue which unites statists of all persuasions. They seem to sense... that gold and economic freedom are inseparable.
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Regulation - which is based on force and fear - undermines the moral base of business dealings. It becomes cheaper to bribe a building inspector than to meet his standards of construction. Protection of the consumer by regulation is thus illusory.
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The current financial crisis in the US is likely to be judged in retrospect as the most wrenching since the end of the Second World War.
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I was a fairly good amateur musician, and I was an average professional. But the one thing I saw was that the big band business was fading.
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The tub helps me relax, and it's a great place to read.
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