Gold still represents the ultimate form of payment in the world.
ALAN GREENSPANAny onset of increased investor caution elevates risk premiums and, as a consequence, lowers asset values and promotes the liquidation of the debt that supported higher asset prices.
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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By far the most significant event in finance during the past decade has been the extraordinary development and expansion of financial derivatives.
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I’ve been in and out of Wall Street since 1949, and I’ve never seen the type of animosity between government and Wall Street. And I’m not sure where it comes from, but I suspect it’s got to do with a general schism in this society which is really becoming ever more destructive.
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No matter how skillful the trading scheme, over the long haul, abnormal returns are sustained only through abnormal exposure to risk.
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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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Clearly, sustained low inflation implies less uncertainty about the future, and lower risk premiums imply higher prices of stocks and other earning assets.
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Although the outlook is clouded by a number of uncertainties, the central tendencies of the projections .. imply continued good economic performance in the United States.
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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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There’s an interesting question here because if the gold price broke in that context, the thermometer would not be just a measuring tool. It would basically affect the underlying psychology.
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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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Was sort of intellectually shocked. Contagion is the critical phenomenon which causes the thing to fall apart.
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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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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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Revolutions are something you see only in retrospect.
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Market financed withdrawals of home equity in recent years.
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Then fear hits, and it comes down very sharply. When I started to look at that.
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