Gold still represents the ultimate form of payment in the world.
ALAN GREENSPANIf you get beyond the political rhetoric [and assembled a group to solve Social Security] it would take them 15 minutes. It would take them 15 minutes only because 10 minutes was used for pleasantries.
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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Developing protectionism regarding trade and our reluctance to place fiscal policy on a more sustainable path are threatening what may well be our most valued policy asset.
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The problem is not lack of regulation but unrealistic expectations. What we confront in reality is uncertainty, some of it frighteningly so…
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Yet deregulation set the stage for an enormous wave of creative destruction in the 1980s.
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Even though some down payments are borrowed, it would take a large, and historically most unusual, fall in home prices to wipe out a significant part of home equity.
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And whatever their publicized angst over Saddam Hussein’s ‘weapons of mass destruction.
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Was sort of intellectually shocked. Contagion is the critical phenomenon which causes the thing to fall apart.
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Gold, unlike all other commodities, is a currency…and the major thrust in the demand for gold is not for jewelry.
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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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There is no evidence that the business cycle has been repealed.
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So there is no reason to suspect that the actual process of boosting rates would be any different.
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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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Excessive optimism sows the seeds of its own reversal.
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Before I met Ayn Rand, I was a logical positivist, and accordingly,
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The need for values is inbred. Their content is not.
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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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