It’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.
ALAN GREENSPANI came to a stark realization: chronic surpluses could be almost as destabilizing as chronic deficits.
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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Improvements in lending practices driven by information technology have enabled lenders to reach out to households with previously unrecognized borrowing capacities.
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If all currencies are moving up or down together, the question is: relative to what? Gold is the canary in the coal mine.
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Unfortunately, Senator, nobody knows where the next innovative idea is coming from.
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The only effective regulation lies in the propensity of customers to choose alternatives, of investors to move their funds elsewhere and of labour to acquire technical skills’.
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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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No matter how skillful the trading scheme, over the long haul, abnormal returns are sustained only through abnormal exposure to risk.
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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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And the percentage changes in wage rates would be the same for all job grades.
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There is no safe store of value. Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the hidden confiscation of wealth.
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It seems superfluous to constrain trading in some of the newer derivatives and other innovative financial contracts of the past decade.
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Significantly opening up immigration to skilled workers solves two problems.
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The tub helps me relax, and it’s a great place to read.
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We need, in effect, to make the phantom ‘lock-boxes’ around the trust fund real.
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Although the outlook is clouded by a number of uncertainties, the central tendencies of the projections .. imply continued good economic performance in the United States.
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Without the triggers, that tax cut is irreponsible fiscal policy. Eventually, I think that will be the consensus view.
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