It signals problems with respect to currency markets. Central banks should pay attention to it.
ALAN GREENSPANExcessive optimism shows the seeds of its own reversal in the form of imbalances that tend to grow over time.
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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Fiat money in extremis is accepted by nobody. Gold is always accepted.
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The true measure of a career is to be able to be content, even proud, that you succeeded through your own endeavors without leaving a trail of casualties in your wake.
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There are no easy choices. Easy choices are long gone.
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In the process we have created [a] privileged elite whose incomes are being supported at non-competitively high levels by immigration quotas on skilled professionals.
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There is no safe store of value. Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the hidden confiscation of wealth.
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People dont realize that we cannot forecast the future. What we can do is have probabilities of what causes what, but thats as far as we go. And Ive had a very successful career as a forecaster, starting in 1948 forward.
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We can guarantee cash benefits as far out and at whatever size you like, but we cannot guarantee their purchasing power.
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Remember what we’re looking at. Gold is a currency. It is still, by all evidence, a premier currency, that no fiat currency, including the dollar, can match.
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The only effective regulation lies in the propensity of customers to choose alternatives, of investors to move their funds elsewhere and of labour to acquire technical skills’.
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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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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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Market financed withdrawals of home equity in recent years.
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The gut-feel of the 55-year old trader is more important than the mathematical elegance of the 25-year old genius.
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Well, you probably will always believe there should be laws against fraud, and I don’t think there is any need for a law against fraud.
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The United States can pay any debt it has because we can always print money to do that. So there is zero probability of default.
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