I was a good amateur but only an average professional. I soon realized that there was a limit to how far I could rise in the music business, so I left the band and enrolled at New York University.
ALAN GREENSPANFiat money in extremis is accepted by nobody. Gold is always accepted.
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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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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Fear and euphoria are dominant forces, and fear is many multiples the size of euphoria. Bubbles go up very slowly as euphoria builds.
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If we are dealing with psychology, then the thermometers one uses to measure it have an effect.
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How do we know when irrational exuberance has unduly escalated asset values?
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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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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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I think that real pressure is going to occur not by the initiation by the Federal Reserve, but by the markets themselves.
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Any informed borrower is simply less vulnerable to fraud and abuse.
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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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I must say, I never expected to see the day where I would be talking about anything other than reducing the debt, I’m running into the tyranny of zero, which is where you can’t reduce (the debt) any more
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I have long argued that paying down the national debt is beneficial for the economy.
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History has not dealt kindly with the aftermath of protracted periods of low risk premiums.
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Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the ‘hidden’ confiscation of wealth.
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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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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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