An almost hysterical antagonism toward the gold standard is one issue which unites statists of all persuasions.
ALAN GREENSPANWe can guarantee cash benefits as far out and at whatever size you like, but we cannot guarantee their purchasing power.
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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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I was a good amateur but only an average professional. I soon realized that there was a limit to how far I could rise in the music business, so I left the band and enrolled at New York University.
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If we are to remain preeminent in transforming knowledge into economic value, America’s system of higher education must remain the world’s leader in generating scientific and technological breakthrough, and in meeting the challenge to educate workers.
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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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And whatever their publicized angst over Saddam Hussein’s ‘weapons of mass destruction.
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I was raising the question on the side with Governor Mullins of what would happen if the Treasury sold a little gold in this market.
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The probability of ten consecutive heads is 0.1 percent; thus, when you have millions of coin tossers, or investors, in the end there will be thousands of very successful practitioners of coin tossing, or stock picking.
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No matter how skillful the trading scheme, over the long haul, abnormal returns are sustained only through abnormal exposure to risk.
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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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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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We as central bankers need not be concerned if a collapsing financial asset bubble does not threaten to impair the real economy, its production, jobs and price stability.
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But rules cannot substitute for character.
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Fiat money in extremis is accepted by nobody. Gold is always accepted.
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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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I came to a stark realization: chronic surpluses could be almost as destabilizing as chronic deficits.
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