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Markets do very weird things because it reacts to how people behave, and sometimes people are a little screwy.

~Alan Greenspan

Topics: Because Behave How Little Markets People Sometimes Things Very Weird Weird Things

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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, but actually replicate in-bred qualities of human nature which create those animal spirits.

~Alan Greenspan

Topics: Actually Always Animal Believed Create Events Existence Fact Human Human Nature Nature New Qualities Random Replicate Spirits Those Which

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Forecasting our futures is built into our psyches because we will soon have to manage that future. We have no choice. No matter how often we fail, we can never stop trying.

~Alan Greenspan

Topics: Because Built Choice Fail Future Futures How Manage Matter Never Never Stop No Choice Often Our Soon Stop Trying Will

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One of the major problems with China is that its innovation is largely borrowed technology.

~Alan Greenspan

Topics: Borrowed China Innovation Largely Major Problems Technology

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I'm a free-market economist from years and years back, and I've never veered from that.

~Alan Greenspan

Topics: Back Economist Free-Market Never Years Years And Years

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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.

~Alan Greenspan

Topics: Always Any Because Debt Default Money Pay Print Probability States United United States Zero

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It is very difficult to predict when a bond crisis could happen.

~Alan Greenspan

Topics: Bond Could Crisis Difficult Happen Predict Very

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Protectionism will do little to create jobs and if foreigners retaliate, we will surely lose jobs.

~Alan Greenspan

Topics: Create Foreigners Jobs Little Lose Protectionism Surely Will

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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.

~Alan Greenspan

Topics: Amateur Average Band Business Could Enrolled Far Good How How Far Left Limit Music Music Business New New York Only Professional Realized Rise Soon University York

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We need, in effect, to make the phantom 'lock-boxes' around the trust fund real.

~Alan Greenspan

Topics: Around Effect Fund Make Need Phantom Real Trust

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Economist

Born: March 6th, 1926

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