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.
ALAN GREENSPANAs long as we issue fiat currency, I see no alternative to a legal tender law.
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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When trust is lost, a nation’s ability to transact business is palpably undermined.
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Since I’ve become a central banker, I’ve learned to mumble with great incoherence.
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I didn’t believe in absolutes, moral or otherwise. If I couldn’t prove a proposition with facts and figures, it was without merit.
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There are no easy choices. Easy choices are long gone.
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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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American and British authorities were also concerned about violence in an area that harbors a resource indispensable for the functioning of the word economy.
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Fear and euphoria are dominant forces, and fear is many multiples the size of euphoria. Bubbles go up very slowly as euphoria builds.
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No one has ever eliminated any of that stuff.
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Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the confiscation of wealth.If I seem unduly clear to you, you must have misunderstood what I said.
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Institutions of the newer participants in global finance had not been tested, until recently…recent crisis have underscored certain financial structure vulnerabilities that are not readily assuaged in the short run.
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In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation.
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And whatever their publicized angst over Saddam Hussein’s ‘weapons of mass destruction.
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Any informed borrower is simply less vulnerable to fraud and abuse.
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Fiat money in extremis is accepted by nobody. Gold is always accepted.
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Derivatives have permitted the unbundling of financial risks.
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