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• Stripped of its academic jargon, the welfare state is nothing more than a mechanism by which governments confiscate the wealth of the productive members of a society to support a wide variety of welfare schemes.

  Alan Greenspan

  Government, Support, Political

  "Greenspan’s Testimony: Will the ‘Maestro’ Face the Music?" by Richard (RJ) Eskow, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 5, 2010.

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• El proceso de innovación es, por supuesto, interminable.

  Alan Greenspan

  Innovation, Process, Courses

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• If all currencies are moving up or down together, the question is: relative to what? Gold is the canary in the coal mine. It signals problems with respect to currency markets. Central banks should pay attention to it.

  Alan Greenspan

  Moving, Together, Gold

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• It has been my experience that competency in mathematics, both in numerical manipulations and in understanding its conceptual foundations, enhances a person's ability to handle the more ambiguous and qualitative relationships that dominate our day-to-day financial decision-making

  Alan Greenspan

  Success, Business, Decision

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• La verdadera medida de una carrera es poder estar contento, incluso orgulloso, de haber triunfado gracias a tus propios esfuerzos sin dejar un reguero de víctimas a tu paso.

  Alan Greenspan

  Happiness, Careers, Leaving

  "Remarks by Chairman Alan Greenspan". Alan Greenspan's commencement address at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, www.federalreserve.gov. June 10, 1999.

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• El capitalismo de amiguetes es esencialmente una condición en la que... los funcionarios públicos conceden favores a personas del sector privado a cambio de favores políticos.

  Alan Greenspan

  Dark, Giving, People

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• La regulación de las transacciones de derivados que son negociadas en privado por profesionales es innecesaria.

  Alan Greenspan

  Regulation, Derivatives, Unnecessary

  Alan Greenspan's Testimony Before the Committee on Banking and Financial Services, U.S. House of Representatives, www.federalreserve.gov. July 24, 1998.

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• Revolutions are something you see only in retrospect.

  Alan Greenspan

  Retrospect, Revolution

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• History cannot be reduced to a set of statistics and probabilities.

  Alan Greenspan

  Statistics, Probability

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• The very nature of finance is that it cannot be profitable unless it is significantly leveraged... and as long as there is debt, there can be failure and contagion.

  Alan Greenspan

  Long, Debt, Finance

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• When trust is lost, a nation's ability to transact business is palpably undermined.

  Alan Greenspan

  Lost, Ability, Nations

  Alan Greenspan (2008). “The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World”, p.256, Penguin

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• Pero, ¿cómo sabemos cuándo la exuberancia irracional ha disparado indebidamente el valor de los activos, que luego se ven sometidos a contracciones inesperadas y prolongadas, como ha ocurrido en Japón en la última década?

  Alan Greenspan

  Past, Japan, Unexpected

  Alan Greenspan (2008). “The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World”, p.177, Penguin

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• In general, corruption tends to exist whenever governments have favors to extend, or something to sell.

  Alan Greenspan

  Government, Favors, Corruption

  Alan Greenspan (2008). “The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World”, p.275, Penguin

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• You can't have the capitalist system if an increasing number of people think it is unjust.

  Alan Greenspan

  Pensar, Números, Personas

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• And whatever their publicized angst over Saddam Hussein's 'weapons of mass destruction,' American and British authorities were also concerned about violence in an area that harbors a resource indispensable for the functioning of the word economy. I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil.

  Alan Greenspan

  War, Mass Destruction, Oil

  "The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World". Book by Alan Greenspan, 2007.

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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.

  Alan Greenspan

  Business, Years, Risk

  "Alan Greenspan: The Oracle Or The Master Of Disaster?" by Thomas B. Edsall, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 22, 2009.

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• We are in the midst of a once-in-a-century credit tsunami. Central banks and governments are being required to take unprecedented measures. Those of us who have looked to the self-interest of lending institutions to protect shareholders' equity are in a state of shocked disbelief.

  Alan Greenspan

  Government, Self, Credit

  "Greenspan Admits Free Market Ideology Flawed". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. October 24, 2008.

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• What an ideology is is a conceptual framework with the way people deal with reality. Everyone has one. You have to, to exist you need an ideology. The question is whether it is accurate or not.

  Alan Greenspan

  Reality, People, Way

  Fuente: www.cbc.ca

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• This decade is strewn with examples of bright people who thought they built a better mousetrap that could consistently extract abnormal returns from the financial markets. Some succeed for a time. But while there may occasionally be mis-configurations among market prices that allow abnormal returns, they do not persist.

  Alan Greenspan

  People, Abnormal, May

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• The recent period has been marked by a transformation to an economy that is more productive as competitive forces become increasingly intense and new technologies raise the efficiency of our businesses...While these tendencies were no doubt in train in the "old," pre-1990s economy, they accelerated over the past decade as a number of technologies with their roots in the cumulative innovations of the past half-century began to yield dramatic economic returns.

  Alan Greenspan

  Past, Technology, Roots

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• But rules cannot substitute for character.

  Alan Greenspan

  Character, Substitutes

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• History demonstrates that participants in financial markets are susceptible to waves of optimism. Excessive optimism shows the seeds of its own reversal in the form of imbalances that tend to grow over time.

  Alan Greenspan

  Optimism, Imbalance, Financial

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• The arts develop skills and habits of mind that are important for workers in the new economy of ideas.

  Alan Greenspan

  Art, Skills, Ideas

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• [Republicans] swapped principle for power. They ended up with neither. They deserved to lose.

  Alan Greenspan

  Principles, Republican, Loses

  Alan Greenspan (2008). “The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World”, p.244, Penguin

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• Antes de conocer Ayn Rand, yo era un positivista lógico y, en consecuencia, no creía en absolutos, morales o de otro tipo. Si no podía demostrar una proposición con hechos y cifras, carecía de fundamento.

  Alan Greenspan

  Believe, Facts, Merit

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