I love facts and figures. It’s like following a detective story, piecing together what’s going on in the economy.
ALAN GREENSPANSome succeed for a time. But while there may occasionally be mis-configurations among market prices that allow abnormal returns, they do not persist.
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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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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There is nothing to guarantee the superior judgment, knowledge, and integrity of an inspector or a bureaucrat-and the deadly consequences of entrusting him with arbitrary power are obvious.
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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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There is no evidence that the business cycle has been repealed.
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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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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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No one has ever eliminated any of that stuff.
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I must say, I never expected to see the day where I would be talking about anything other than reducing the debt, I’m running into the tyranny of zero, which is where you can’t reduce (the debt) any more
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Nor can private counterparties restrict supplies of gold, another commodity whose derivatives are often traded over-the-counter, where central banks stand ready to lease gold in increasing quantities should the price rise.
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By far the most significant event in finance during the past decade has been the extraordinary development and expansion of financial derivatives.
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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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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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I came to a stark realization: chronic surpluses could be almost as destabilizing as chronic deficits.
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Indeed, better risk management may be the only truly necessary element of success in banking.
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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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