Remember 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.
ALAN GREENSPANAnd the percentage changes in wage rates would be the same for all job grades.
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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Senator, we are groping for understanding, the knowledge you assume I possess doesn’t exist’.
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It signals problems with respect to currency markets. Central banks should pay attention to it.
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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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Productivity is notoriously difficult to predict.
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While local economies may experience significant price imbalances, a national severe price distortion seems most unlikely in the United States, given its size and diversity.
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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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Enhances a person’s ability to handle the more ambiguous and qualitative relationships that dominate our day-to-day financial decision-making
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I’m a plain soap kind of guy.
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Fear and euphoria are dominant forces, and fear is many multiples the size of euphoria. Bubbles go up very slowly as euphoria builds.
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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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So there is no reason to suspect that the actual process of boosting rates would be any different.
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Cash is available and we should use that in larger amounts, as is necessary, to solve the problems of the stress of this.
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[Republicans] swapped principle for power. They ended up with neither. They deserved to lose.
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Gold stands in the way of this insidious process. It stands as a protector of property rights.
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The abandonment of the gold standard made it possible for the welfare statists to use the banking system as a means to an unlimited expansion of credit.
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