In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation.
ALAN GREENSPANIn the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation.
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Improvements in lending practices driven by information technology have enabled lenders to reach out to households with previously unrecognized borrowing capacities.
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If you think you understand what I am saying you do not understand what I am saying.
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Yet deregulation set the stage for an enormous wave of creative destruction in the 1980s.
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A decline in the national housing price level would need to be substantial to trigger a significant rise in foreclosures, because the vast majority of homeowners have built up substantial equity in their homes despite large mortgage.
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The worst have failed; investors no longer fund them and are not likely to in the future.
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Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the ‘hidden’ confiscation of wealth.
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Well, you probably will always believe there should be laws against fraud, and I don’t think there is any need for a law against fraud.
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Gold, unlike all other commodities, is a currency…and the major thrust in the demand for gold is not for jewelry.
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This is the reason that history has not dealt kindly with the aftermath of protracted periods of low risk premiums.
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History has not dealt kindly with the aftermath of protracted periods of low risk premiums.
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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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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 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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The companies could hire the educated workers they need. And those workers would compete with high-income people, driving more income equality.
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People dont realize that we cannot forecast the future. What we can do is have probabilities of what causes what, but thats as far as we go. And Ive had a very successful career as a forecaster, starting in 1948 forward.
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