The abandonment of the gold standard made it possible for the welfare statists to use the banking system as a means to an unlimited expansion of credit.
ALAN GREENSPANThere 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.
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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It’s hard to overemphasize how important Ford’s deregulation was. True, most of the benefits took years to unfold-rail freight rates, for example hardly budged at first.
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I love to play tennis and golf, listen to music, watch baseball and root for the Redskins.
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We need, in effect, to make the phantom ‘lock-boxes’ around the trust fund real.
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Some succeed for a time. But while there may occasionally be mis-configurations among market prices that allow abnormal returns, they do not persist.
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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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Gold stands in the way of this insidious process. It stands as a protector of property rights.
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Since I’ve become a central banker, I’ve learned to mumble with great incoherence.
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I have one other issue I’d like to throw on the table. I hesitate to do it, but let me tell you some of the issues that are involved here.
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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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Any informed borrower is simply less vulnerable to fraud and abuse.
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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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Need to consider not only the most likely future path for the economy but also the distribution of possible outcomes about that path.
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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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Corruption, embezzlement, fraud, these are all characteristics which exist everywhere.
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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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