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ALAN GREENSPAN

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I found a flaw in the model that I perceived is the critical functioning structure that defines how the world works.

economicshumility— US Congressional Testimony, October 2008, 2008
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The markets have the capacity to do things that regulators cannot anticipate. Sometimes that is a feature. Sometimes it is a catastrophic bug.

marketsregulation— The Age of Turbulence, 2007, 2007
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Bubbles are only identified in retrospect. While you are in one, it looks like growth.

bubblesmarkets— Interview with Charlie Rose, 2013, 2013
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If I seem unduly clear to you, you must have misunderstood what I said.

communicationhumor— Frequently quoted throughout his Fed tenure, attributed to multiple occasions, 1995
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The history of economic progress is a history of creative destruction. The question is always: who bears the cost of the disruption?

disruptioneconomics— American Enterprise Institute lecture, 2010, 2010