I’m a better economist than I was a sax player.
ALAN GREENSPANGold stands in the way of this insidious process. It stands as a protector of property rights.
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In the process we have created [a] privileged elite whose incomes are being supported at non-competitively high levels by immigration quotas on skilled professionals.
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Then fear hits, and it comes down very sharply. When I started to look at that.
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Without calling the overall national issue a bubble, it’s pretty clear that it’s an unsustainable underlying pattern.
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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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It has been my experience that competency in mathematics, both in numerical manipulations and in understanding its conceptual foundations.
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Senator, if I seem clear to you, you must have misunderstood me’.
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We cannot rule out a situation in which a preemptive policy tightening becomes necessary.
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I don’t know where the stock market is going, but I will say this, that if it continues higher, this will do more to stimulate the economy than anything we’ve been talking about today or anything anybody else was talking about.
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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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Unfortunately, Senator, nobody knows where the next innovative idea is coming from.
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I believe that the general growth in large [financial] institutions have occurred in the context of an underlying structure of markets in which many of the larger risks are dramatically — I should say, fully — hedged.
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Yet deregulation set the stage for an enormous wave of creative destruction in the 1980s.
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It’s not for anything other than an escape from what is perceived to be a fiat money system, paper money, that seems to be deteriorating.
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In an economy that already has lost some momentum, one must remain alert to the possibility that greater caution and weakening asset values in financial markets could signal or precipitate an excessive softening in household and business spending.
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Fiat money in extremis is accepted by nobody. Gold is always accepted.
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