In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store of value.
ALAN GREENSPANIn the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation.
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Amateurs want to be right. Professionals want to make money.
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The recent period has been marked by a transformation to an economy that is more productive as competitive forces become increasingly intense and new technologies raise the efficiency of our businesses…
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Corruption, embezzlement, fraud, these are all characteristics which exist everywhere.
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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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Fear and euphoria are dominant forces, and fear is many multiples the size of euphoria. Bubbles go up very slowly as euphoria builds.
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I was a good amateur but only an average professional. I soon realized that there was a limit to how far I could rise in the music business, so I left the band and enrolled at New York University.
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Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the confiscation of wealth.If I seem unduly clear to you, you must have misunderstood what I said.
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Now, I only play very occasionally, and in fact, more piano than clarinet or sax.
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Senator, if I seem clear to you, you must have misunderstood me’.
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History cannot be reduced to a set of statistics and probabilities.
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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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We may be in a rapidly evolving international financial system with all the bells and whistles of the so-called new economy. But the old-economy rules of prudence are as formidable as ever. We violate them at our own peril.
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I’ve always argued that this country has benefited immensely from the fact that we draw people from all over the world.
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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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Skilled shortages in America exist because we are shielding our skilled labor force from world competition. [Visa quotas] have been substituted for the wage pricing mechanism.
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