Gold stands in the way of this insidious process. It stands as a protector of property rights.
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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Such caution seems especially warranted with regard to the sharp rise in equity prices during the past two years. These gains have obviously raised questions of sustainability.
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What an ideology is is a conceptual framework with the way people deal with reality.
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They seem to sense… that gold and economic freedom are inseparable.
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Senator, we are groping for understanding, the knowledge you assume I possess doesn’t exist’.
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I’ve been in and out of Wall Street since 1949, and I’ve never seen the type of animosity between government and Wall Street. And I’m not sure where it comes from, but I suspect it’s got to do with a general schism in this society which is really becoming ever more destructive.
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Derivatives have permitted the unbundling of financial risks.
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If one grasps this, one has no difficulty in understanding the statists’ antagonism toward the gold standard.
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Regulation of derivatives transactions that are privately negotiated by professionals is unnecessary.
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Greenspan, who knew so much more than most, knew far less than most supposed.
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Revolutions are something you see only in retrospect.
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An almost hysterical antagonism toward the gold standard is one issue which unites statists of all persuasions.
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These days, even out of office, I still read economic reports.
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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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If you get beyond the political rhetoric [and assembled a group to solve Social Security] it would take them 15 minutes. It would take them 15 minutes only because 10 minutes was used for pleasantries.
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