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There is no safe store of value. Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the hidden confiscation of wealth.

Alan Greenspan

The true measure of a career is to be able to be content, even proud, that you succeeded through your own endeavors without leaving a trail of casualties in your wake.
ALAN GREENSPAN

Able Content Leave Measure Own Succeeded True
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.
ALAN GREENSPAN

Already Asset Business Caution Economy Great Lost Momentum Must Possibly Predictable Remain Spend Weakness
We as central bankers need not be concerned if a collapsing financial asset bubble does not threaten to impair the real economy, its production, jobs and price stability.
ALAN GREENSPAN

Asset Banker Bubble Central Collapse Concern Do Economy Financial Threaten
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.
ALAN GREENSPAN

Goad Growth Improve Mean Preventative Snoop Statics System
If I seem unduly clear to you, you must have misunderstood what I said.
ALAN GREENSPAN

Clear Misunderstood Must Said Seen Unduly
I’m a plain soap kind of guy.
ALAN GREENSPAN

Guy Kind Plain Soap
What we have found over the years in the marketplace is that derivatives have been an extraordinarily useful vehicle to transfer risk from those who shouldn’t be taking it to those who are willing to and are capable of doing so.
ALAN GREENSPAN

Derivative Extraordinary Marketplace Over Useful Year
I’m a better economist than I was a sax player.
ALAN GREENSPAN

Better Economist Player
History has not dealt kindly with the aftermath of protracted periods of low risk premiums.
ALAN GREENSPAN

Aftermath Dealt History Period Premium Protracted Risk
There is nothing to guarantee the superior judgment, knowledge, and integrity of an inspector or a bureaucrat-and the deadly consequences of entrusting him with arbitrary power are obvious.
ALAN GREENSPAN

Arbitrary Death Guarantee Inspector Integrity Judgement Knowledge Nothing Superior
It is regrettably the way human nature functions, whether we like it or not. What successful economies do is keep it to a minimum.
ALAN GREENSPAN

Function Human Keep Minimum Nature Regrettably Successful
Those of us who have looked to the self-interest of lending institutions to protect shareholders’ equity are in a state of shocked disbelief.
ALAN GREENSPAN

Disbelief Institution Interest Lend Self Shareholder Shock
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.
ALAN GREENSPAN

Against Always Any Believe Fraud Law Need Probably
It’s a bubble. It has to have intrinsic value. You have to really stretch your imagination to infer what the intrinsic value of Bitcoin is. I haven’t been able to do it. Maybe somebody else can.
ALAN GREENSPAN

Bitcoin Blue Bubble Imagination Intrinsic Really Stretch
Crony capitalism is essentially a condition in which… public officials are giving favours to people in the private sector in payment of political favours.
ALAN GREENSPAN

Capitalism Condition Crony Essentially Favour Private Public
The increased flexibility of our economy, which has fostered our extraordinary resilience to shocks.
ALAN GREENSPAN

Economy Extraordinary Flexible Foster Increase Shock

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