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 GREENSPANThey 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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The recent evidence increasingly suggests that an economic expansion is already well under way, although an array of influences unique to this business cycle seems likely to moderate its speed.
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The number of mistakes I have made are just awesome. There is no number large enough to account for that.
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The guiding purpose of the government regulator is to prevent rather than to create something.
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What we have found over the years in the marketplace is that derivatives have been an extraordinarily useful vehicle to transfer risk from those who shouldn’t be taking it to those who are willing to and are capable of doing so.
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Productivity is notoriously difficult to predict.
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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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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 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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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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Gold stands in the way of this insidious process. It stands as a protector of property rights.
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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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Greenspan, who knew so much more than most, knew far less than most supposed.
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And whatever their publicized angst over Saddam Hussein’s ‘weapons of mass destruction.
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Indeed, better risk management may be the only truly necessary element of success in banking.
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In general, corruption tends to exist whenever governments have favors to extend, or something to sell.
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