I’m a plain soap kind of guy.
ALAN GREENSPAN[Republicans] swapped principle for power. They ended up with neither. They deserved to lose.
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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Regulation of derivatives transactions that are privately negotiated by professionals is unnecessary.
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Any 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.
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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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Many of those who purchased their residence more than a year ago have equity buffers in their homes adequate to withstand any price decline other than a very deep one.
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Revolutions are something you see only in retrospect.
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Amateurs want to be right. Professionals want to make money.
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The more flexible an economy, the greater its ability to self-correct in response to inevitable, often unanticipated, disturbances and thus to contain the size and consequences of cyclical imbalances.
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Some succeed for a time. But while there may occasionally be mis-configurations among market prices that allow abnormal returns, they do not persist.
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The very nature of finance is that it cannot be profitable unless it is significantly leveraged… and as long as there is debt, there can be failure and contagion.
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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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Developing protectionism regarding trade and our reluctance to place fiscal policy on a more sustainable path are threatening what may well be our most valued policy asset.
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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.
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So there is no reason to suspect that the actual process of boosting rates would be any different.
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I have one other issue I’d like to throw on the table. I hesitate to do it, but let me tell you some of the issues that are involved here.
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Gold still represents the ultimate form of payment in the world.
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