Gold, unlike all other commodities, is a currency…and the major thrust in the demand for gold is not for jewelry.
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.
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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The more flexible an economy, the greater its ability to self-correct in response to inevitable, often unanticipated, disturbances and thus to contain the size and consequences of cyclical imbalances.
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Excessive optimism shows the seeds of its own reversal in the form of imbalances that tend to grow over time.
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Such caution seems especially warranted with regard to the sharp rise in equity prices during the past two years. These gains have obviously raised questions of sustainability.
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But how do we know when irrational exuberance has unduly escalated asset values, which then become subject to unexpected and prolonged contractions as they have in Japan over the past decade?
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…our market system depends critically on trust-trust in the word of our colleagues and trust in the word of those with whom we do business.
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Clearly, sustained low inflation implies less uncertainty about the future, and lower risk premiums imply higher prices of stocks and other earning assets.
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If one grasps this, one has no difficulty in understanding the statists’ antagonism toward the gold standard.
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Market financed withdrawals of home equity in recent years.
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There is no evidence that the business cycle has been repealed.
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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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We 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.
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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.
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I have found no greater satisfaction than achieving success through honest dealing and strict adherence to the view that, for you to gain, those you deal with should gain as well.
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Political decisions are never random and will always lose out to innovative alternatives.
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Gold still represents the ultimate form of payment in the world.
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