I’m always amazed that my wife can handle different subjects – one day politics, the next day foreign policy.
ALAN GREENSPANHistory cannot be reduced to a set of statistics and probabilities.
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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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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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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While local economies may experience significant price imbalances, a national severe price distortion seems most unlikely in the United States, given its size and diversity.
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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.
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I’m a plain soap kind of guy.
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Revolutions are something you see only in retrospect.
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So there is no reason to suspect that the actual process of boosting rates would be any different.
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Fiat money in extremis is accepted by nobody. Gold is always accepted.
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These days, even out of office, I still read economic reports.
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The need for values is inbred. Their content is not.
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No matter how skillful the trading scheme, over the long haul, abnormal returns are sustained only through abnormal exposure to risk.
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No one has ever eliminated any of that stuff.
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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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And whatever their publicized angst over Saddam Hussein’s ‘weapons of mass destruction.
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I have long argued that paying down the national debt is beneficial for the economy.
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