…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.
ALAN GREENSPANThey then need to reach a judgment about the probabilities, costs, and benefits of the various possible outcomes under alternative choices for policy.
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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There is nothing to guarantee the superior judgment, knowledge, and integrity of an inspector or a bureaucrat-and the deadly consequences of entrusting him with arbitrary power are obvious.
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It is this superlatively moral system that the welfare statists propose to improve upon by means of preventative law, snooping bureaucrats, and the chronic goad of fear.
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The probability of ten consecutive heads is 0.1 percent; thus, when you have millions of coin tossers, or investors, in the end there will be thousands of very successful practitioners of coin tossing, or stock picking.
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We can see that in the inverse relationship exhibited by price/earnings ratios and the rate of inflation in the past.
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In general, corruption tends to exist whenever governments have favors to extend, or something to sell.
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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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I came to a stark realization: chronic surpluses could be almost as destabilizing as chronic deficits.
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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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I guess I should warn you, if I turn out to be particularly clear, you’ve probably misunderstood what I’ve said.
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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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If I’ve made myself clear, I’ve misspoken.
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Fiat money in extremis is accepted by nobody. Gold is always accepted.
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It’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.
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There is no safe store of value. Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the hidden confiscation of wealth.
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Productivity is notoriously difficult to predict.
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