Gold stands in the way of this insidious process. It stands as a protector of property rights.
ALAN GREENSPANWe as central bankers need not be concerned if a collapsing financial asset bubble does not threaten to impair the real economy, its production, jobs and price stability.
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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I didn’t believe in absolutes, moral or otherwise. If I couldn’t prove a proposition with facts and figures, it was without merit.
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Unfortunately, Senator, nobody knows where the next innovative idea is coming from.
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We cannot rule out a situation in which a preemptive policy tightening becomes necessary.
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History demonstrates that participants in financial markets are susceptible to waves of optimism.
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Gold still represents the ultimate form of payment in the world.
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Any informed borrower is simply less vulnerable to fraud and abuse.
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The current financial crisis in the US is likely to be judged in retrospect as the most wrenching since the end of the Second World War.
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Significantly opening up immigration to skilled workers solves two problems.
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Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the ‘hidden’ confiscation of wealth.
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In the process we have created [a] privileged elite whose incomes are being supported at non-competitively high levels by immigration quotas on skilled professionals.
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Gold, unlike all other commodities, is a currency…and the major thrust in the demand for gold is not for jewelry.
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In an economy that already has lost some momentum, one must remain alert to the possibility that greater caution and weakening asset values in financial markets could signal or precipitate an excessive softening in household and business spending.
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Regulation – which is based on force and fear – undermines the moral base of business dealings. It becomes cheaper to bribe a building inspector than to meet his standards of construction. Protection of the consumer by regulation is thus illusory.
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The problem is not lack of regulation but unrealistic expectations. What we confront in reality is uncertainty, some of it frighteningly so…
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Market financed withdrawals of home equity in recent years.
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