Gold stands in the way of this insidious process. It stands as a protector of property rights.
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More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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All taxes are a drag on economic growth. It’s only a question of degree.
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It is this superlatively moral system that the welfare statists propose to improve upon by means of preventative law, snooping bureaucrats, and the chronic goad of fear.
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Yet deregulation set the stage for an enormous wave of creative destruction in the 1980s.
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I’m a better economist than I was a sax player.
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I have long argued that paying down the national debt is beneficial for the economy.
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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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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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The number of mistakes I have made are just awesome. There is no number large enough to account for that.
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Indeed, better risk management may be the only truly necessary element of success in banking.
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The 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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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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While these tendencies were no doubt in train in the “old,” pre-1990s economy, they accelerated over the past decade as a number of technologies with their roots in the cumulative innovations of the past half-century began to yield dramatic economic returns.
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This decade is strewn with examples of bright people who thought they built a better mousetrap that could consistently extract abnormal returns from the financial markets.
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Then fear hits, and it comes down very sharply. When I started to look at that.
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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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If prices go down, we will have problems – problems in the sense of spillover to other areas.
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Excessive optimism sows the seeds of its own reversal.
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If I seem unduly clear to you, you must have misunderstood what I said.
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If I’ve made myself clear, I’ve misspoken.
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Any informed borrower is simply less vulnerable to fraud and abuse.
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Protectionism will do little to create jobs and if foreigners retaliate, we will surely lose jobs.
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We need, in effect, to make the phantom ‘lock-boxes’ around the trust fund real.
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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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But how do we know when irrational exuberance has unduly escalated asset values, which then become subject to unexpected and prolonged contractions as they have in Japan over the past decade?
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It’s a bubble. It has to have intrinsic value. You have to really stretch your imagination to infer what the intrinsic value of Bitcoin is. I haven’t been able to do it. Maybe somebody else can.
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The current financial crisis in the US is likely to be judged in retrospect as the most wrenching since the end of the Second World War.
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