Regulation of derivatives transactions that are privately negotiated by professionals is unnecessary.
ALAN GREENSPANThe problem is not lack of regulation but unrealistic expectations. What we confront in reality is uncertainty, some of it frighteningly so…
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I have long argued that paying down the national debt is beneficial for the economy.
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Greenspan, who knew so much more than most, knew far less than most supposed.
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As long as we issue fiat currency, I see no alternative to a legal tender law.
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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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Before I met Ayn Rand, I was a logical positivist, and accordingly,
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Revolutions are something you see only in retrospect.
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Anything that we can do to raise personal savings is very much in the interest of this country.
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Political decisions are never random and will always lose out to innovative alternatives.
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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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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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There is no safe store of value. Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the hidden confiscation of wealth.
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Was sort of intellectually shocked. Contagion is the critical phenomenon which causes the thing to fall apart.
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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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The increased flexibility of our economy, which has fostered our extraordinary resilience to shocks.
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We cannot rule out a situation in which a preemptive policy tightening becomes necessary.
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