Fiat money in extremis is accepted by nobody. Gold is always accepted.
ALAN GREENSPANHow do we know when irrational exuberance has unduly escalated asset values?
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At the risk of some oversimplification, if the skill composition of our work force meshed fully with the needs of our increasingly complex capital-stock, wage-skill differentials would be stable.
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I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil.
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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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Improvements in lending practices driven by information technology have enabled lenders to reach out to households with previously unrecognized borrowing capacities.
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There is nothing to guarantee the superior judgment, knowledge, and integrity of an inspector or a bureaucrat-and the deadly consequences of entrusting him with arbitrary power are obvious.
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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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If one grasps this, one has no difficulty in understanding the statists’ antagonism toward the gold standard.
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Now, I only play very occasionally, and in fact, more piano than clarinet or sax.
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The arts develop skills and habits of mind that are important for workers in the new economy of ideas.
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Capitalism is based on self-interest and self-esteem; it holds integrity and trustworthiness as cardinal virtues and makes them pay off in the marketplace, thus demanding that men survive by means of virtue, not vices.
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In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation.
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Market financed withdrawals of home equity in recent years.
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These days, even out of office, I still read economic reports.
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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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Excessive optimism sows the seeds of its own reversal.
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