Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the ‘hidden’ confiscation of wealth.
ALAN GREENSPANIt has been my experience that competency in mathematics, both in numerical manipulations and in understanding its conceptual foundations.
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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Rules cannot take the place of character.
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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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I’m a plain soap kind of guy.
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The process of innovation is, of course, never ending.
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Any informed borrower is simply less vulnerable to fraud and abuse.
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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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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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But rules cannot substitute for character.
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Revolutions are something you see only in retrospect.
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The Iraq War is largely about oil.
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Cash is available and we should use that in larger amounts, as is necessary, to solve the problems of the stress of this.
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Significantly opening up immigration to skilled workers solves two problems.
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Those of us who have looked to the self-interest of lending institutions to protect shareholders’ equity are in a state of shocked disbelief.
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Credit-default swaps, I think, have serious problems associated with them.
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The probability of ten consecutive heads is 0.1 percent; thus, when you have millions of coin tossers, or investors, in the end there will be thousands of very successful practitioners of coin tossing, or stock picking.
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