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.
ALAN GREENSPANTo 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.
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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We can see that in the inverse relationship exhibited by price/earnings ratios and the rate of inflation in the past.
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Enhances a person’s ability to handle the more ambiguous and qualitative relationships that dominate our day-to-day financial decision-making
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We cannot rule out a situation in which a preemptive policy tightening becomes necessary.
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All taxes are a drag on economic growth. It’s only a question of degree.
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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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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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They then need to reach a judgment about the probabilities, costs, and benefits of the various possible outcomes under alternative choices for policy.
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And she always has so much fun doing it. We make a good team.
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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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I’ve been in and out of Wall Street since 1949, and I’ve never seen the type of animosity between government and Wall Street. And I’m not sure where it comes from, but I suspect it’s got to do with a general schism in this society which is really becoming ever more destructive.
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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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If I’ve made myself clear, I’ve misspoken.
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I love to play tennis and golf, listen to music, watch baseball and root for the Redskins.
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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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We can guarantee cash benefits as far out and at whatever size you like, but we cannot guarantee their purchasing power.
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