Nor can private counterparties restrict supplies of gold, another commodity whose derivatives are often traded over-the-counter, where central banks stand ready to lease gold in increasing quantities should the price rise.
ALAN GREENSPANAlthough the outlook is clouded by a number of uncertainties, the central tendencies of the projections .. imply continued good economic performance in the United States.
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
-
-
If we allow terrorism to undermine our freedom of action, we could reverse at least part of the palpable gains achieved by postwar globalization. It is incumbent upon us not to allow that to happen.
ALAN GREENSPAN -
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 GREENSPAN -
Since I’ve become a central banker, I’ve learned to mumble with great incoherence.
ALAN GREENSPAN -
I was a fairly good amateur musician, and I was an average professional. But the one thing I saw was that the big band business was fading.
ALAN GREENSPAN -
The abandonment of the gold standard made it possible for the welfare statists to use the banking system as a means to an unlimited expansion of credit.
ALAN GREENSPAN -
It is decidedly not true that “nice guys finish last,” as that highly original American baseball philosopher, Leo Durocher, was alleged to have said.
ALAN GREENSPAN -
I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil.
ALAN GREENSPAN -
Fear and euphoria are dominant forces, and fear is many multiples the size of euphoria. Bubbles go up very slowly as euphoria builds.
ALAN GREENSPAN -
I love facts and figures. It’s like following a detective story, piecing together what’s going on in the economy.
ALAN GREENSPAN -
The increased flexibility of our economy, which has fostered our extraordinary resilience to shocks.
ALAN GREENSPAN -
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.
ALAN GREENSPAN -
In general, corruption tends to exist whenever governments have favors to extend, or something to sell.
ALAN GREENSPAN -
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.
ALAN GREENSPAN -
Significantly opening up immigration to skilled workers solves two problems.
ALAN GREENSPAN -
Any informed borrower is simply less vulnerable to fraud and abuse.
ALAN GREENSPAN