The United States can pay any debt it has because we can always print money to do that. So there is zero probability of default.
ALAN GREENSPANRemember what we’re looking at. Gold is a currency. It is still, by all evidence, a premier currency, that no fiat currency, including the dollar, can match.
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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History cannot be reduced to a set of statistics and probabilities.
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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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Excessive optimism shows the seeds of its own reversal in the form of imbalances that tend to grow over time.
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We may be in a rapidly evolving international financial system with all the bells and whistles of the so-called new economy. But the old-economy rules of prudence are as formidable as ever. We violate them at our own peril.
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People dont realize that we cannot forecast the future. What we can do is have probabilities of what causes what, but thats as far as we go. And Ive had a very successful career as a forecaster, starting in 1948 forward.
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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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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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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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Regulators have not been able to achieve the level of future clarity required to act pre-emptively.
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I don’t think it’s possible for the Fed to end its easy-money policies in a trouble-free manner.
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How do we know when irrational exuberance has unduly escalated asset values?
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The guiding purpose of the government regulator is to prevent rather than to create something.
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We will have more crises and none of them will look like this because no two crises have anything in common except human nature.
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The tub helps me relax, and it’s a great place to read.
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They seem to sense… that gold and economic freedom are inseparable.
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