Gold stands in the way of this insidious process. It stands as a protector of property rights.
ALAN GREENSPANI don’t know where the stock market is going, but I will say this, that if it continues higher, this will do more to stimulate the economy than anything we’ve been talking about today or anything anybody else was talking about.
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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I have long argued that paying down the national debt is beneficial for the economy.
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Crony capitalism is essentially a condition in which… public officials are giving favours to people in the private sector in payment of political favours.
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Protectionism will do little to create jobs and if foreigners retaliate, we will surely lose jobs.
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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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I’m a plain soap kind of guy.
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As long as we issue fiat currency, I see no alternative to a legal tender law.
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An almost hysterical antagonism toward the gold standard is one issue which unites statists of all persuasions.
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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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What an ideology is is a conceptual framework with the way people deal with reality.
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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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Senator, if I seem clear to you, you must have misunderstood me’.
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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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If prices go down, we will have problems – problems in the sense of spillover to other areas.
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The only sustainable way to increase demand for vacant houses is to spur the formation of new households. Admitting more skilled immigrants, who tend to earn enough to buy homes, would accomplish that while paying other dividends to the U.S. economy.
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I came to a stark realization: chronic surpluses could be almost as destabilizing as chronic deficits.
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