It signals problems with respect to currency markets. Central banks should pay attention to it.
ALAN GREENSPANThe increased flexibility of our economy, which has fostered our extraordinary resilience to shocks.
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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The free lunch has still to be invented.
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I was raising the question on the side with Governor Mullins of what would happen if the Treasury sold a little gold in this market.
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Political decisions are never random and will always lose out to innovative alternatives.
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And whatever their publicized angst over Saddam Hussein’s ‘weapons of mass destruction.
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The guiding purpose of the government regulator is to prevent rather than to create something.
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Productivity is notoriously difficult to predict.
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There’s an interesting question here because if the gold price broke in that context, the thermometer would not be just a measuring tool. It would basically affect the underlying psychology.
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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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I have one other issue I’d like to throw on the table. I hesitate to do it, but let me tell you some of the issues that are involved here.
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Then fear hits, and it comes down very sharply. When I started to look at that.
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As long as we issue fiat currency, I see no alternative to a legal tender law.
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But how do we know when irrational exuberance has unduly escalated asset values, which then become subject to unexpected and prolonged contractions as they have in Japan over the past decade?
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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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Recent episodes in which Fed officials hinted at a shift toward higher interest rates have unleashed significant volatility in markets.
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Gold still represents the ultimate form of payment in the world.
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