American - Economist | March 6, 1926 -
Europe is very critical to the United States in the sense not only do we have a fourth of our exports there, but more importantly, a significant proportion of the foreign affiliate profits in fact, half of U.S. corporations, are in Europe.
Alan Greenspan
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Fear invariably and universally induces disengagement, and disengagement is negative division of labor.
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There's no other job in public life that is like chairman of the Fed.
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Since 1948 I have spent every single day thinking how the economic and political worlds have changed.
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The central focus of what we are doing at the Fed is to keep inflation from accelerating - and preferably decelerating.
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Manufacturing capacity is not a rigid level against which one bounces. When you are dealing with a world economy, with a flexibility to employ production facilities other than one's own, then the concept of capacity is vaguer.
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I was sort of shocked when it all of a sudden turned out that I got all A's through college, with the exception of two B's in the first term. I never envisaged myself as summa cum laude.
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One of the problems with hedge funds is that they are changing so rapidly. If you have the balance sheet that closed business last night, by 11 A.M. this morning, that won't tell you very much about what they're doing.
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