It signals problems with respect to currency markets. Central banks should pay attention to it.
ALAN GREENSPANFiat money in extremis is accepted by nobody. Gold is always accepted.
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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While local economies may experience significant price imbalances, a national severe price distortion seems most unlikely in the United States, given its size and diversity.
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Whatever you tax you get less of.
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In the process we have created [a] privileged elite whose incomes are being supported at non-competitively high levels by immigration quotas on skilled professionals.
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Indeed, better risk management may be the only truly necessary element of success in banking.
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Fiat money in extremis is accepted by nobody. Gold is always accepted.
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The recent period has been marked by a transformation to an economy that is more productive as competitive forces become increasingly intense and new technologies raise the efficiency of our businesses…
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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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We ought to be opening up our borders to skilled labour from all parts of the world because [the state of the world is as follows: ].
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The recent evidence increasingly suggests that an economic expansion is already well under way, although an array of influences unique to this business cycle seems likely to moderate its speed.
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I have long argued that paying down the national debt is beneficial for the economy.
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Yet deregulation set the stage for an enormous wave of creative destruction in the 1980s.
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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.
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Gold still represents the ultimate form of payment in the world.
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And whatever their publicized angst over Saddam Hussein’s ‘weapons of mass destruction.
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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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