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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 Greenspan

To succeed, you will soon learn, as I did, the importance of a solid foundation in the basics of education – literacy, both verbal and numerical, and communication skills.
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Basic Communication Education Foundation Importance Learn Solid Soon Succeed
Everyone has one. You have to, to exist you need an ideology. The question is whether it is accurate or not.
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Accurate Everyone Exist Ideology Need Question
Protectionism will do little to create jobs and if foreigners retaliate, we will surely lose jobs.
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Create Foreigner Job Little Lose Protectionism Retaliate Surely
If you think you understand what I am saying you do not understand what I am saying.
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Say Think Understand
Any informed borrower is simply less vulnerable to fraud and abuse.
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Abuse Borrower Fraud Inform Less Simply Vulnerable
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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Formation House Household Increase New Only Sustainable
Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the ‘hidden’ confiscation of wealth.
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Confiscation Deficit Hide Scheme Simply Spend Wealth
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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Failure Finance Leverage Nature Significantly Unless Very
The true measure of a career is to be able to be content, even proud, that you succeeded through your own endeavors without leaving a trail of casualties in your wake.
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Able Content Leave Measure Own Succeeded True
It’s a bubble. It has to have intrinsic value. You have to really stretch your imagination to infer what the intrinsic value of Bitcoin is. I haven’t been able to do it. Maybe somebody else can.
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Bitcoin Blue Bubble Imagination Intrinsic Really Stretch
All taxes are a drag on economic growth. It’s only a question of degree.
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Degree Drag Economic Growth Only Question Tax
Given our inevitably incomplete knowledge about key structural aspects of our ever-changing economy and the sometimes asymmetric costs or benefits of particular outcomes, a central bank.
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Aspect Bank Change Economy Ever Give Incomplete Inevitably Knowledge Outcome Particular Sometimes Structural
The Iraq War is largely about oil.
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Country Largely Oil War
Fiat money in extremis is accepted by nobody. Gold is always accepted.
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Accept Extremis Fiat God Money Nobody
A decline in the national housing price level would need to be substantial to trigger a significant rise in foreclosures, because the vast majority of homeowners have built up substantial equity in their homes despite large mortgage.
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Bank Decline Foreclosure Housing Level National Need Significant Substantial Trigger
American and British authorities were also concerned about violence in an area that harbors a resource indispensable for the functioning of the word economy.
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Country Economy Function Harbor Violence World

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.

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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.

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