I Don't Think It's Possible For The Fed To End Its Easy-money Policies In A Trouble-free Manner. Recent Episodes In Which Fed Officials Hinted At A Shift Toward Higher Interest Rates Have Unleashed Significant Volatility In Markets, So There Is No Reason To Suspect That The Actual Process Of Boosting Rates Would Be Any Different. I Think That Real Pressure Is Going To Occur Not By The Initiation By The Federal Reserve, But By The Markets Themselves.

-Alan Greenspan

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I Don't Think It's Possible For The

Alan Greenspan

I Don't Think It's Possible For The Fed To End Its Easy-money Policies In A Trouble-free Manner. Recent Episodes In Which Fed Officials Hinted At A Shift Toward Higher Interest Rates Have Unleashed Significant Volatility In Markets, So There Is No Reason To Suspect That The Actual Process Of Boosting Rates Would Be Any Different. I Think That Real Pressure Is Going To Occur Not By The Initiation By The Federal Reserve, But By The Markets Themselves.

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If We Allow Terrorism To Undermine Our Freedom Of Action, We Could Reverse At Least Part Of The Palpable Gains Achieved By Postwar Globalization. It Is Incumbent Upon Us Not To Allow That To Happen.

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