I believe that the general growth in large [financial] institutions have occurred in the context of an underlying structure of markets in which many of the larger risks are dramatically — I should say, fully — hedged.
ALAN GREENSPANThe number one problem in today’s generation and economy is the lack of financial literacy.
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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It seems superfluous to constrain trading in some of the newer derivatives and other innovative financial contracts of the past decade.
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Clearly, sustained low inflation implies less uncertainty about the future, and lower risk premiums imply higher prices of stocks and other earning assets.
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Crony capitalism is essentially a condition in which… public officials are giving favours to people in the private sector in payment of political favours.
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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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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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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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They then need to reach a judgment about the probabilities, costs, and benefits of the various possible outcomes under alternative choices for policy.
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Need to consider not only the most likely future path for the economy but also the distribution of possible outcomes about that path.
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If I say something which you understand fully in this regard, I probably made a mistake.
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In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation.
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The Iraq War is largely about oil.
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I don’t think it’s possible for the Fed to end its easy-money policies in a trouble-free manner.
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The worst have failed; investors no longer fund them and are not likely to in the future.
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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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…our market system depends critically on trust-trust in the word of our colleagues and trust in the word of those with whom we do business.
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