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.
ALAN GREENSPANNor 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.
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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The abandonment of the gold standard made it possible for the welfare statists to use the banking system as a means to an unlimited expansion of credit.
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Capitalism is based on self-interest and self-esteem; it holds integrity and trustworthiness as cardinal virtues and makes them pay off in the marketplace, thus demanding that men survive by means of virtue, not vices.
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The United States can pay any debt it has because we can always print money to do that. So there is zero probability of default.
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I’m not denying that monopolies are terrible things, but I am denying that it is readily easy to resolve them through legislation of that nature.
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Remember what we’re looking at. Gold is a currency. It is still, by all evidence, a premier currency, that no fiat currency, including the dollar, can match.
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There is no evidence that the business cycle has been repealed.
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In general, corruption tends to exist whenever governments have favors to extend, or something to sell.
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If all currencies are moving up or down together, the question is: relative to what? Gold is the canary in the coal mine.
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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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[Republicans] swapped principle for power. They ended up with neither. They deserved to lose.
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The economy is turning, and credit comes in with a lag, .. To the extent that a number of small firms are finding it difficult to get the credit they need at a price they can afford, that’s likely to change for the better.
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I came to a stark realization: chronic surpluses could be almost as destabilizing as chronic deficits.
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As long as we issue fiat currency, I see no alternative to a legal tender law.
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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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Gold stands in the way of this insidious process. It stands as a protector of property rights.
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