I’m not denying that monopolies are terrible things, but I am denying that it is readily easy to resolve them through legislation of that nature.
ALAN GREENSPANIt’s not for anything other than an escape from what is perceived to be a fiat money system, paper money, that seems to be deteriorating.
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Regulators have not been able to achieve the level of future clarity required to act pre-emptively.
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Whatever you tax you get less of.
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The only sustainable way to increase demand for vacant houses is to spur the formation of new households. Admitting more skilled immigrants, who tend to earn enough to buy homes, would accomplish that while paying other dividends to the U.S. economy.
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I have one other issue I’d like to throw on the table. I hesitate to do it, but let me tell you some of the issues that are involved here.
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There’s an interesting question here because if the gold price broke in that context, the thermometer would not be just a measuring tool. It would basically affect the underlying psychology.
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Anyone willing to do what is required to become president of the United States is thereby barred from taking that office. I’m only half joking
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By far the most significant event in finance during the past decade has been the extraordinary development and expansion of financial derivatives.
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Gold stands in the way of this insidious process. It stands as a protector of property rights.
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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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Yet deregulation set the stage for an enormous wave of creative destruction in the 1980s.
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They then need to reach a judgment about the probabilities, costs, and benefits of the various possible outcomes under alternative choices for policy.
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Corruption, embezzlement, fraud, these are all characteristics which exist everywhere.
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Well, you probably will always believe there should be laws against fraud, and I don’t think there is any need for a law against fraud.
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The recent evidence increasingly suggests that an economic expansion is already well under way, although an array of influences unique to this business cycle seems likely to moderate its speed.
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I came to a stark realization: chronic surpluses could be almost as destabilizing as chronic deficits.
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