Rules cannot take the place of character.
ALAN GREENSPANClearly, sustained low inflation implies less uncertainty about the future, and lower risk premiums imply higher prices of stocks and other earning assets.
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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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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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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I love facts and figures. It’s like following a detective story, piecing together what’s going on in the economy.
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I’m not denying that monopolies are terrible things, but I am denying that it is readily easy to resolve them through legislation of that nature.
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Senator, we are groping for understanding, the knowledge you assume I possess doesn’t exist’.
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Significantly opening up immigration to skilled workers solves two problems.
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Market financed withdrawals of home equity in recent years.
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As long as we issue fiat currency, I see no alternative to a legal tender law.
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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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Gold stands in the way of this insidious process. It stands as a protector of property rights.
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I cannot conceive of a politically feasible solution to this problem which will overdo cutting the deficit, where overdoing means harming the economy. It might be technically possible, but it is not realistic.
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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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American consumers might benefit if lenders provided greater mortgage product alternatives to the traditional fixed-rate mortgage.
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We cannot rule out a situation in which a preemptive policy tightening becomes necessary.
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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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