We are in the midst of a once-in-a-century credit tsunami. Central banks and governments are being required to take unprecedented measures.
ALAN GREENSPANGold still represents the ultimate form of payment in the world.
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I love facts and figures. It’s like following a detective story, piecing together what’s going on in the economy.
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We need, in effect, to make the phantom ‘lock-boxes’ around the trust fund real.
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Senator, if I seem clear to you, you must have misunderstood me’.
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It is regrettably the way human nature functions, whether we like it or not. What successful economies do is keep it to a minimum.
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Some succeed for a time. But while there may occasionally be mis-configurations among market prices that allow abnormal returns, they do not persist.
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Stripped of its academic jargon, the welfare state is nothing more than a mechanism by which governments confiscate the wealth of the productive members of a society to support a wide variety of welfare schemes.
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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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I think that real pressure is going to occur not by the initiation by the Federal Reserve, but by the markets themselves.
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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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Gold still represents the ultimate form of payment in the world.
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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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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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I was a good amateur but only an average professional. I soon realized that there was a limit to how far I could rise in the music business, so I left the band and enrolled at New York University.
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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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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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