It’s not for anything other than an escape from what is perceived to be a fiat money system, paper money, that seems to be deteriorating.
ALAN GREENSPANWhat an ideology is is a conceptual framework with the way people deal with reality.
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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Anyone willing to do what is required to become president of the United States is thereby barred from taking that office. I’m only half joking
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Although the outlook is clouded by a number of uncertainties, the central tendencies of the projections .. imply continued good economic performance in the United States.
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Rules cannot take the place of character.
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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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The problem is not lack of regulation but unrealistic expectations. What we confront in reality is uncertainty, some of it frighteningly so…
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Excessive optimism shows the seeds of its own reversal in the form of imbalances that tend to grow over time.
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Fear and euphoria are dominant forces, and fear is many multiples the size of euphoria. Bubbles go up very slowly as euphoria builds.
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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 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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Any onset of increased investor caution elevates risk premiums and, as a consequence, lowers asset values and promotes the liquidation of the debt that supported higher asset prices.
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Market financed withdrawals of home equity in recent years.
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And the percentage changes in wage rates would be the same for all job grades.
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If we are dealing with psychology, then the thermometers one uses to measure it have an effect.
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Gold, unlike all other commodities, is a currency…and the major thrust in the demand for gold is not for jewelry.
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The use of a growing array of derivatives and the related application of more-sophisticated approaches to measuring and managing risk are key factors underpinning the greater resilience of our largest financial institutions…
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