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.
ALAN GREENSPANThe free lunch has still to be invented.
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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A decline in the national housing price level would need to be substantial to trigger a significant rise in foreclosures, because the vast majority of homeowners have built up substantial equity in their homes despite large mortgage.
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Revolutions are something you see only in retrospect.
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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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Gold stands in the way of this insidious process. It stands as a protector of property rights.
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Excessive optimism sows the seeds of its own reversal.
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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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People dont realize that we cannot forecast the future. What we can do is have probabilities of what causes what, but thats as far as we go. And Ive had a very successful career as a forecaster, starting in 1948 forward.
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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.
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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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We may be in a rapidly evolving international financial system with all the bells and whistles of the so-called new economy. But the old-economy rules of prudence are as formidable as ever. We violate them at our own peril.
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How do we know when irrational exuberance has unduly escalated asset values?
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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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Although the outlook is clouded by a number of uncertainties, the central tendencies of the projections .. imply continued good economic performance in the United States.
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The increased flexibility of our economy, which has fostered our extraordinary resilience to shocks.
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I didn’t believe in absolutes, moral or otherwise. If I couldn’t prove a proposition with facts and figures, it was without merit.
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