If I say something which you understand fully in this regard, I probably made a mistake.
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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The free lunch has still to be invented.
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If we are dealing with psychology, then the thermometers one uses to measure it have an effect.
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The increased flexibility of our economy, which has fostered our extraordinary resilience to shocks.
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If prices go down, we will have problems – problems in the sense of spillover to other areas.
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[Republicans] swapped principle for power. They ended up with neither. They deserved to lose.
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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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Corruption, embezzlement, fraud, these are all characteristics which exist everywhere.
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The number of mistakes I have made are just awesome. There is no number large enough to account for that.
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This decade is strewn with examples of bright people who thought they built a better mousetrap that could consistently extract abnormal returns from the financial markets.
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The more flexible an economy, the greater its ability to self-correct in response to inevitable, often unanticipated, disturbances and thus to contain the size and consequences of cyclical imbalances.
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Everyone has one. You have to, to exist you need an ideology. The question is whether it is accurate or not.
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I was a good amateur but only an average professional. I soon realized that there was a limit to how far I could rise in the music business, so I left the band and enrolled at New York University.
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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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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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Then fear hits, and it comes down very sharply. When I started to look at that.
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