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Anything that we can do to raise personal savings is very much in the interest of this country.

~Alan Greenspan

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Whatever you tax, you get less of.

~Alan Greenspan

Topics: Get Less Tax Whatever You

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History has not dealt kindly with the aftermath of protracted periods of low risk premiums.

~Alan Greenspan

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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 not sure where it comes from, but I suspect it's got to do with a general schism in this society which is really becoming ever more destructive.

~Alan Greenspan

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I don't know where the stock market is going, but I will say this, that if it continues higher, this will do more to stimulate the economy than anything we've been talking about today or anything anybody else was talking about.

~Alan Greenspan

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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.

~Alan Greenspan

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Revolutions are something you see only in retrospect.

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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.

~Alan Greenspan

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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.

~Alan Greenspan

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I get so engaged when I have a problem you cannot solve that I just cannot break away from what I am doing - I keep thinking and thinking and cannot stop.

~Alan Greenspan

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Economist

Born: March 6th, 1926

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