The need for values is inbred. Their content is not.
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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If you get beyond the political rhetoric [and assembled a group to solve Social Security] it would take them 15 minutes. It would take them 15 minutes only because 10 minutes was used for pleasantries.
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I was a good amateur but only an average professional. I soon realized that there was a limit to how far I could rise in the music business, so I left the band and enrolled at New York University.
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If prices go down, we will have problems – problems in the sense of spillover to other areas.
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We can see that in the inverse relationship exhibited by price/earnings ratios and the rate of inflation in the past.
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Gold still represents the ultimate form of payment in the world.
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To succeed, you will soon learn, as I did, the importance of a solid foundation in the basics of education – literacy, both verbal and numerical, and communication skills.
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It’s a bubble. It has to have intrinsic value. You have to really stretch your imagination to infer what the intrinsic value of Bitcoin is. I haven’t been able to do it. Maybe somebody else can.
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Any informed borrower is simply less vulnerable to fraud and abuse.
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I guess I should warn you, if I turn out to be particularly clear, you’ve probably misunderstood what I’ve said.
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It signals problems with respect to currency markets. Central banks should pay attention to it.
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The probability of ten consecutive heads is 0.1 percent; thus, when you have millions of coin tossers, or investors, in the end there will be thousands of very successful practitioners of coin tossing, or stock picking.
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Fear and euphoria are dominant forces, and fear is many multiples the size of euphoria. Bubbles go up very slowly as euphoria builds.
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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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I’m a plain soap kind of guy.
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If we are dealing with psychology, then the thermometers one uses to measure it have an effect.
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