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The world will suffer another financial crisis, former Federal Reserve chief Alan Greenspan has told the BBC.
"The crisis will happen again but it will be different," he told BBC Two's The Love of Money series.
He added that he had predicted the crash would come as a reaction to a long period of prosperity.
During the interview for BBC Two's The Love of Money series, the former Fed chief said the current economic crisis was a "once in a century type of event", and one that he did not expect to witness.
"The crisis will happen again but it will be different,"
"They [financial crises] are all different, but they have one fundamental source," he said.
"That is the unquenchable capability of human beings when confronted with long periods of prosperity to presume that it will continue."
I'll tell you what happened, son. See, there's a bunch of idiots out there who weren't happy with what they had. They wanted a bigger house and materialistic things that they didn't even need. People with no money, who got loans to buy frivolous things they had no business buying...and these assholes just blindly started buying any stupid thing that looked appealing 'cause they thought money was endless
Originally posted by Pockets
reply to post by Mdv2
"That is the unquenchable capability of human beings when confronted with long periods of prosperity to presume that it will continue."
I'll tell you what happened, son. See, there's a bunch of idiots out there who weren't happy with what they had. They wanted a bigger house and materialistic things that they didn't even need. People with no money, who got loans to buy frivolous things they had no business buying...and these assholes just blindly started buying any stupid thing that looked appealing 'cause they thought money was endless
Randy Marsh
[edit on 9-9-2009 by Pockets]