“An area in which more rather than less government involvement is needed, in my judgment, is the rooting out of fraud. It is the bane of any market system.”

—  Alan Greenspan

Source: 2000s, The Age of Turbulence (2008), Chapter Nineteen, "Globalization and Regulation", p. 375.

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