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.
ALAN GREENSPANCrony capitalism is essentially a condition in which… public officials are giving favours to people in the private sector in payment of political favours.
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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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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I love to play tennis and golf, listen to music, watch baseball and root for the Redskins.
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The tub helps me relax, and it’s a great place to read.
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I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil.
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And the percentage changes in wage rates would be the same for all job grades.
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An almost hysterical antagonism toward the gold standard is one issue which unites statists of all persuasions.
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And whatever their publicized angst over Saddam Hussein’s ‘weapons of mass destruction.
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Excessive optimism sows the seeds of its own reversal.
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It signals problems with respect to currency markets. Central banks should pay attention to it.
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Before I met Ayn Rand, I was a logical positivist, and accordingly,
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Anything that we can do to raise personal savings is very much in the interest of this country.
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I don’t think it’s possible for the Fed to end its easy-money policies in a trouble-free manner.
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Anyone willing to do what is required to become president of the United States is thereby barred from taking that office. I’m only half joking
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In general, corruption tends to exist whenever governments have favors to extend, or something to sell.
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It seems superfluous to constrain trading in some of the newer derivatives and other innovative financial contracts of the past decade.
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