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Alan Greenspan

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Alan Greenspan
Age: 98
Born: 1926
Born: March 6
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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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There is nothing to guarantee the superior judgment, knowledge, and integrity of an inspector or a bureaucrat-and the deadly consequences of entrusting him with arbitrary power are obvious.
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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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There is no evidence that the business cycle has been repealed.
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I'm not denying that monopolies are terrible things, but I am denying that it is readily easy to resolve them through legislation of that nature.
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Rules cannot take the place of character.
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Anyone willing to do what is required to become president of the United States is thereby barred from taking that office. I'm only half joking
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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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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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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.
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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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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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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 than an escape from what is perceived to be a fiat money system, paper money, that seems to be deteriorating.
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All taxes are a drag on economic growth. It's only a question of degree.
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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.
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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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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.
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Anything that we can do to raise personal savings is very much in the interest of this country.
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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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But rules cannot substitute for character.
Alan Greenspan