In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation.
ALAN GREENSPANThe free lunch has still to be invented.
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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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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And she always has so much fun doing it. We make a good team.
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While these tendencies were no doubt in train in the “old,” pre-1990s economy, they accelerated over the past decade as a number of technologies with their roots in the cumulative innovations of the past half-century began to yield dramatic economic returns.
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Revolutions are something you see only in retrospect.
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Crony capitalism is essentially a condition in which… public officials are giving favours to people in the private sector in payment of political favours.
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Need to consider not only the most likely future path for the economy but also the distribution of possible outcomes about that path.
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Without calling the overall national issue a bubble, it’s pretty clear that it’s an unsustainable underlying pattern.
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Greenspan, who knew so much more than most, knew far less than most supposed.
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How do we know when irrational exuberance has unduly escalated asset values?
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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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The very nature of finance is that it cannot be profitable unless it is significantly leveraged… and as long as there is debt, there can be failure and contagion.
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Before I met Ayn Rand, I was a logical positivist, and accordingly,
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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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Some succeed for a time. But while there may occasionally be mis-configurations among market prices that allow abnormal returns, they do not persist.
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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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