I must say, I never expected to see the day where I would be talking about anything other than reducing the debt, I’m running into the tyranny of zero, which is where you can’t reduce (the debt) any more
ALAN GREENSPANIt’s not for anything other than an escape from what is perceived to be a fiat money system, paper money, that seems to be deteriorating.
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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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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I’m always amazed that my wife can handle different subjects – one day politics, the next day foreign policy.
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If I seem unduly clear to you, you must have misunderstood what I said.
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Senator, if I seem clear to you, you must have misunderstood me’.
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Given our inevitably incomplete knowledge about key structural aspects of our ever-changing economy and the sometimes asymmetric costs or benefits of particular outcomes, a central bank.
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The process of innovation is, of course, never ending.
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This decade is strewn with examples of bright people who thought they built a better mousetrap that could consistently extract abnormal returns from the financial markets.
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Cash is available and we should use that in larger amounts, as is necessary, to solve the problems of the stress of this.
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I’m a plain soap kind of guy.
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They seem to sense… that gold and economic freedom are inseparable.
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The only effective regulation lies in the propensity of customers to choose alternatives, of investors to move their funds elsewhere and of labour to acquire technical skills’.
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Capitalism is based on self-interest and self-esteem; it holds integrity and trustworthiness as cardinal virtues and makes them pay off in the marketplace, thus demanding that men survive by means of virtue, not vices.
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The abandonment of the gold standard made it possible for the welfare statists to use the banking system as a means to an unlimited expansion of credit.
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People dont realize that we cannot forecast the future. What we can do is have probabilities of what causes what, but thats as far as we go. And Ive had a very successful career as a forecaster, starting in 1948 forward.
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There is no evidence that the business cycle has been repealed.
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