But rules cannot substitute for character.
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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Corruption, embezzlement, fraud, these are all characteristics which exist everywhere.
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I have found no greater satisfaction than achieving success through honest dealing and strict adherence to the view that, for you to gain, those you deal with should gain as well.
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The number one problem in today’s generation and economy is the lack of financial literacy.
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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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No one has ever eliminated any of that stuff.
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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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I guess I should warn you, if I turn out to be particularly clear, you’ve probably misunderstood what I’ve said.
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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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Whatever you tax you get less of.
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The economy is turning, and credit comes in with a lag, .. To the extent that a number of small firms are finding it difficult to get the credit they need at a price they can afford, that’s likely to change for the better.
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The guiding purpose of the government regulator is to prevent rather than to create something.
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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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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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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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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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