Greenspan, who knew so much more than most, knew far less than most supposed.
ALAN GREENSPANThey 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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Gold still represents the ultimate form of payment in the world.
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How do we know when irrational exuberance has unduly escalated asset values?
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As long as we issue fiat currency, I see no alternative to a legal tender law.
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[Republicans] swapped principle for power. They ended up with neither. They deserved to lose.
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History has not dealt kindly with the aftermath of protracted periods of low risk premiums.
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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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But material success is possible in this world and far more satisfying when it comes without exploiting others.
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The arts develop skills and habits of mind that are important for workers in the new economy of ideas.
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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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In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store of value.
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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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I made a mistake in presuming that the self-interests of organisations, specifically banks and others, were such that they were best capable of protecting their own shareholders and their equity in the firms.
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In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation.
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If I seem unduly clear to you, you must have misunderstood what I said.
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The companies could hire the educated workers they need. And those workers would compete with high-income people, driving more income equality.
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