The current financial crisis in the US is likely to be judged in retrospect as the most wrenching since the end of the Second World War.
ALAN GREENSPANEnhances a person’s ability to handle the more ambiguous and qualitative relationships that dominate our day-to-day financial decision-making
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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American consumers might benefit if lenders provided greater mortgage product alternatives to the traditional fixed-rate mortgage.
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There are no easy choices. Easy choices are long gone.
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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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I’m not denying that monopolies are terrible things, but I am denying that it is readily easy to resolve them through legislation of that nature.
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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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While these tendencies were no doubt in train in the “old,” pre-1990s economy, they accelerated over the past decade as a number of technologies with their roots in the cumulative innovations of the past half-century began to yield dramatic economic returns.
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Fiat money in extremis is accepted by nobody. Gold is always accepted.
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Senator, if I seem clear to you, you must have misunderstood me’.
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If all currencies are moving up or down together, the question is: relative to what? Gold is the canary in the coal mine.
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American and British authorities were also concerned about violence in an area that harbors a resource indispensable for the functioning of the word economy.
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To succeed, you will soon learn, as I did, the importance of a solid foundation in the basics of education – literacy, both verbal and numerical, and communication skills.
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Without calling the overall national issue a bubble, it’s pretty clear that it’s an unsustainable underlying pattern.
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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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Then fear hits, and it comes down very sharply. When I started to look at that.
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You can’t have the capitalist system if an increasing number of people think it is unjust.
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