I was a fairly good amateur musician, and I was an average professional. But the one thing I saw was that the big band business was fading.
ALAN GREENSPANAs long as we issue fiat currency, I see no alternative to a legal tender law.
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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Those of us who have looked to the self-interest of lending institutions to protect shareholders’ equity are in a state of shocked disbelief.
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American and British authorities were also concerned about violence in an area that harbors a resource indispensable for the functioning of the word economy.
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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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It signals problems with respect to currency markets. Central banks should pay attention to it.
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Revolutions are something you see only in retrospect.
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Rules cannot take the place of character.
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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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Gold stands in the way of this insidious process. It stands as a protector of property rights.
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Everyone has one. You have to, to exist you need an ideology. The question is whether it is accurate or not.
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There are no easy choices. Easy choices are long gone.
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All taxes are a drag on economic growth. It’s only a question of degree.
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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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If prices go down, we will have problems – problems in the sense of spillover to other areas.
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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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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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