If prices go down, we will have problems – problems in the sense of spillover to other areas.
ALAN GREENSPANSenator, if I seem clear to you, you must have misunderstood me’.
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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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.
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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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But rules cannot substitute for character.
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Political decisions are never random and will always lose out to innovative alternatives.
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When trust is lost, a nation’s ability to transact business is palpably undermined.
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The economy is turning, and credit comes in with a lag, .. To the extent that a number of small firms are finding it difficult to get the credit they need at a price they can afford, that’s likely to change for the better.
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Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the ‘hidden’ confiscation of wealth.
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How do we know when irrational exuberance has unduly escalated asset values?
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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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I was a fairly good amateur musician, and I was an average professional. But the one thing I saw was that the big band business was fading.
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I didn’t believe in absolutes, moral or otherwise. If I couldn’t prove a proposition with facts and figures, it was without merit.
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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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I was a good amateur but only an average professional. I soon realized that there was a limit to how far I could rise in the music business, so I left the band and enrolled at New York University.
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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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Nor can private counterparties restrict supplies of gold, another commodity whose derivatives are often traded over-the-counter, where central banks stand ready to lease gold in increasing quantities should the price rise.
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