Gold, unlike all other commodities, is a currency…and the major thrust in the demand for gold is not for jewelry.
ALAN GREENSPANI love facts and figures. It’s like following a detective story, piecing together what’s going on in the economy.
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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If I’ve made myself clear, I’ve misspoken.
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Regulation – which is based on force and fear – undermines the moral base of business dealings. It becomes cheaper to bribe a building inspector than to meet his standards of construction. Protection of the consumer by regulation is thus illusory.
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Any informed borrower is simply less vulnerable to fraud and abuse.
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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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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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The companies could hire the educated workers they need. And those workers would compete with high-income people, driving more income equality.
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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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They 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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It seems superfluous to constrain trading in some of the newer derivatives and other innovative financial contracts of the past decade.
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The need for values is inbred. Their content is not.
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In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store of value.
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As long as we issue fiat currency, I see no alternative to a legal tender law.
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Senator, if I seem clear to you, you must have misunderstood me’.
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Revolutions are something you see only in retrospect.
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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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