Gold stands in the way of this insidious process. It stands as a protector of property rights.
ALAN GREENSPANIf I seem unduly clear to you, you must have misunderstood what I said.
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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I love to play tennis and golf, listen to music, watch baseball and root for the Redskins.
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The only sustainable way to increase demand for vacant houses is to spur the formation of new households. Admitting more skilled immigrants, who tend to earn enough to buy homes, would accomplish that while paying other dividends to the U.S. economy.
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Derivatives have permitted the unbundling of financial risks.
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Excessive optimism sows the seeds of its own reversal.
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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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Indeed, better risk management may be the only truly necessary element of success in banking.
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Senator, if I seem clear to you, you must have misunderstood me’.
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It seems superfluous to constrain trading in some of the newer derivatives and other innovative financial contracts of the past decade.
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Excessive optimism shows the seeds of its own reversal in the form of imbalances that tend to grow over time.
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And the percentage changes in wage rates would be the same for all job grades.
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The need for values is inbred. Their content is not.
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An almost hysterical antagonism toward the gold standard is one issue which unites statists of all persuasions.
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We are in the midst of a once-in-a-century credit tsunami. Central banks and governments are being required to take unprecedented measures.
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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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In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation.
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