They seem to sense… that gold and economic freedom are inseparable.
ALAN GREENSPANThe guiding purpose of the government regulator is to prevent rather than to create something.
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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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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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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I think that real pressure is going to occur not by the initiation by the Federal Reserve, but by the markets themselves.
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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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If I say something which you understand fully in this regard, I probably made a mistake.
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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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Anything that we can do to raise personal savings is very much in the interest of this country.
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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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…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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Regulators have not been able to achieve the level of future clarity required to act pre-emptively.
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I have long argued that paying down the national debt is beneficial for the economy.
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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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We ought to be opening up our borders to skilled labour from all parts of the world because [the state of the world is as follows: ].
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There are no easy choices. Easy choices are long gone.
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