Cash is available and we should use that in larger amounts, as is necessary, to solve the problems of the stress of this.
ALAN GREENSPANThe arts develop skills and habits of mind that are important for workers in the new economy of ideas.
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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I’m not denying that monopolies are terrible things, but I am denying that it is readily easy to resolve them through legislation of that nature.
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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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Remember what we’re looking at. Gold is a currency. It is still, by all evidence, a premier currency, that no fiat currency, including the dollar, can match.
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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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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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Senator, if I seem clear to you, you must have misunderstood me’.
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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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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.
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The process of innovation is, of course, never ending.
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By far the most significant event in finance during the past decade has been the extraordinary development and expansion of financial derivatives.
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Political decisions are never random and will always lose out to innovative alternatives.
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I was raising the question on the side with Governor Mullins of what would happen if the Treasury sold a little gold in this market.
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Amateurs want to be right. Professionals want to make money.
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It is this superlatively moral system that the welfare statists propose to improve upon by means of preventative law, snooping bureaucrats, and the chronic goad of fear.
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At the risk of some oversimplification, if the skill composition of our work force meshed fully with the needs of our increasingly complex capital-stock, wage-skill differentials would be stable.
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