If one grasps this, one has no difficulty in understanding the statists’ antagonism toward the gold standard.
ALAN GREENSPANWhat 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.
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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Enhances a person’s ability to handle the more ambiguous and qualitative relationships that dominate our day-to-day financial decision-making
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You can’t have the capitalist system if an increasing number of people think it is unjust.
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Was sort of intellectually shocked. Contagion is the critical phenomenon which causes the thing to fall apart.
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Anything that we can do to raise personal savings is very much in the interest of this country.
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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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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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We may be in a rapidly evolving international financial system with all the bells and whistles of the so-called new economy. But the old-economy rules of prudence are as formidable as ever. We violate them at our own peril.
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American consumers might benefit if lenders provided greater mortgage product alternatives to the traditional fixed-rate mortgage.
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The very nature of finance is that it cannot be profitable unless it is significantly leveraged… and as long as there is debt, there can be failure and contagion.
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The gut-feel of the 55-year old trader is more important than the mathematical elegance of the 25-year old genius.
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The need for values is inbred. Their content is not.
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No matter how skillful the trading scheme, over the long haul, abnormal returns are sustained only through abnormal exposure to risk.
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I have long argued that paying down the national debt is beneficial for the economy.
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Gold, unlike all other commodities, is a currency…and the major thrust in the demand for gold is not for jewelry.
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We can guarantee cash benefits as far out and at whatever size you like, but we cannot guarantee their purchasing power.
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