I love facts and figures. It’s like following a detective story, piecing together what’s going on in the economy.
ALAN GREENSPANThere is no safe store of value. Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the hidden confiscation of wealth.
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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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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Gold stands in the way of this insidious process. It stands as a protector of property rights.
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Those of us who have looked to the self-interest of lending institutions to protect shareholders’ equity are in a state of shocked disbelief.
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I’m a better economist than I was a sax player.
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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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Any informed borrower is simply less vulnerable to fraud and abuse.
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By far the most significant event in finance during the past decade has been the extraordinary development and expansion of financial derivatives.
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Was sort of intellectually shocked. Contagion is the critical phenomenon which causes the thing to fall apart.
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The number one problem in today’s generation and economy is the lack of financial literacy.
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Clearly, sustained low inflation implies less uncertainty about the future, and lower risk premiums imply higher prices of stocks and other earning assets.
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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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Skilled shortages in America exist because we are shielding our skilled labor force from world competition. [Visa quotas] have been substituted for the wage pricing mechanism.
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I was raising the question on the side with Governor Mullins of what would happen if the Treasury sold a little gold in this market.
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Stripped of its academic jargon, the welfare state is nothing more than a mechanism by which governments confiscate the wealth of the productive members of a society to support a wide variety of welfare schemes.
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History has not dealt kindly with the aftermath of protracted periods of low risk premiums.
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