History has not dealt kindly with the aftermath of protracted periods of low risk premiums.
ALAN GREENSPANThe process of innovation is, of course, never ending.
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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The abandonment of the gold standard made it possible for the welfare statists to use the banking system as a means to an unlimited expansion of credit.
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How do we know when irrational exuberance has unduly escalated asset values?
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The number one problem in today’s generation and economy is the lack of financial literacy.
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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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The guiding purpose of the government regulator is to prevent rather than to create something.
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Productivity is notoriously difficult to predict.
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Political decisions are never random and will always lose out to innovative alternatives.
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In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store of value.
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But rules cannot substitute for character.
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Rules cannot take the place of character.
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It keeps interest rates lower than they otherwise would be and frees savings to finance increases in the capital stock, thereby boosting productivity and real incomes.
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Fiat money in extremis is accepted by nobody. Gold is always accepted.
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In general, corruption tends to exist whenever governments have favors to extend, or something to sell.
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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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Was sort of intellectually shocked. Contagion is the critical phenomenon which causes the thing to fall apart.
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