They seem to sense… that gold and economic freedom are inseparable.
ALAN GREENSPANNeed to consider not only the most likely future path for the economy but also the distribution of possible outcomes about that path.
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Before I met Ayn Rand, I was a logical positivist, and accordingly,
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I don’t think it’s possible for the Fed to end its easy-money policies in a trouble-free manner.
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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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Need to consider not only the most likely future path for the economy but also the distribution of possible outcomes about that path.
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Derivatives have permitted the unbundling of financial risks.
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But material success is possible in this world and far more satisfying when it comes without exploiting others.
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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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It is decidedly not true that “nice guys finish last,” as that highly original American baseball philosopher, Leo Durocher, was alleged to have said.
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I’ve always argued that this country has benefited immensely from the fact that we draw people from all over the world.
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It seems superfluous to constrain trading in some of the newer derivatives and other innovative financial contracts of the past decade.
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This is the reason that history has not dealt kindly with the aftermath of protracted periods of low risk premiums.
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Yet deregulation set the stage for an enormous wave of creative destruction in the 1980s.
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The number of mistakes I have made are just awesome. There is no number large enough to account for that.
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I do not deny that many appear to have succeeded in a material way by cutting corners and by manipulating associates, both in their professional and in their personal lives.
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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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