Credit-default swaps, I think, have serious problems associated with them.
ALAN GREENSPANSome succeed for a time. But while there may occasionally be mis-configurations among market prices that allow abnormal returns, they do not persist.
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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Senator, if I seem clear to you, you must have misunderstood me’.
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Anyone willing to do what is required to become president of the United States is thereby barred from taking that office. I’m only half joking
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It has been my experience that competency in mathematics, both in numerical manipulations and in understanding its conceptual foundations.
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Gold, unlike all other commodities, is a currency…and the major thrust in the demand for gold is not for jewelry.
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We cannot rule out a situation in which a preemptive policy tightening becomes necessary.
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The guiding purpose of the government regulator is to prevent rather than to create something.
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Since I’ve become a central banker, I’ve learned to mumble with great incoherence.
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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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I’ve been in and out of Wall Street since 1949, and I’ve never seen the type of animosity between government and Wall Street. And I’m not sure where it comes from, but I suspect it’s got to do with a general schism in this society which is really becoming ever more destructive.
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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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If you get beyond the political rhetoric [and assembled a group to solve Social Security] it would take them 15 minutes. It would take them 15 minutes only because 10 minutes was used for pleasantries.
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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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It is regrettably the way human nature functions, whether we like it or not. What successful economies do is keep it to a minimum.
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Without the triggers, that tax cut is irreponsible fiscal policy. Eventually, I think that will be the consensus view.
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The problem is not lack of regulation but unrealistic expectations. What we confront in reality is uncertainty, some of it frighteningly so…
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