If one grasps this, one has no difficulty in understanding the statists’ antagonism toward the gold standard.
ALAN GREENSPANI’ve always argued that this country has benefited immensely from the fact that we draw people from all over the world.
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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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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History cannot be reduced to a set of statistics and probabilities.
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It’s hard to overemphasize how important Ford’s deregulation was. True, most of the benefits took years to unfold-rail freight rates, for example hardly budged at first.
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I made a mistake in presuming that the self-interests of organisations, specifically banks and others, were such that they were best capable of protecting their own shareholders and their equity in the firms.
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It is regrettably the way human nature functions, whether we like it or not. What successful economies do is keep it to a minimum.
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If I say something which you understand fully in this regard, I probably made a mistake.
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I came to a stark realization: chronic surpluses could be almost as destabilizing as chronic deficits.
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Corruption, embezzlement, fraud, these are all characteristics which exist everywhere.
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It’s a bubble. It has to have intrinsic value. You have to really stretch your imagination to infer what the intrinsic value of Bitcoin is. I haven’t been able to do it. Maybe somebody else can.
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Any informed borrower is simply less vulnerable to fraud and abuse.
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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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What an ideology is is a conceptual framework with the way people deal with reality.
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The free lunch has still to be invented.
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The more flexible an economy, the greater its ability to self-correct in response to inevitable, often unanticipated, disturbances and thus to contain the size and consequences of cyclical imbalances.
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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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