If you think you understand what I am saying you do not understand what I am saying.
ALAN GREENSPANIt is regrettably the way human nature functions, whether we like it or not. What successful economies do is keep it to a minimum.
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If I’ve made myself clear, I’ve misspoken.
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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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If I say something which you understand fully in this regard, I probably made a mistake.
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They seem to sense… that gold and economic freedom are inseparable.
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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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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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But rules cannot substitute for character.
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When trust is lost, a nation’s ability to transact business is palpably undermined.
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I do not deny that many appear to have succeeded in a material way by cutting corners and by manipulating associates, both in their professional and in their personal lives.
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Without calling the overall national issue a bubble, it’s pretty clear that it’s an unsustainable underlying pattern.
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Some succeed for a time. But while there may occasionally be mis-configurations among market prices that allow abnormal returns, they do not persist.
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If I seem unduly clear to you, you must have misunderstood what I said.
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The recent period has been marked by a transformation to an economy that is more productive as competitive forces become increasingly intense and new technologies raise the efficiency of our businesses…
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The process of innovation is, of course, never ending.
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What we have found over the years in the marketplace is that derivatives have been an extraordinarily useful vehicle to transfer risk from those who shouldn’t be taking it to those who are willing to and are capable of doing so.
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