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Look, I'm very much in favor of tax cuts, but not with borrowed money. And the problem that we've gotten into in recent years is spending programs with borrowed money, tax cuts with borrowed money, and at the end of the day that proves disastrous. And my view is I don't think we can play subtle policy here.
— Alan Greenspan
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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
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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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Revolutions are something you see only in retrospect.
— Alan Greenspan
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The problem is you cannot have free global trade with highly restrictive, regulated domestic markets.
— Alan Greenspan
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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
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