The current financial crisis in the US is likely to be judged in retrospect as the most wrenching since the end of the Second World War.
ALAN GREENSPANRevolutions are something you see only in retrospect.
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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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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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If we are to remain preeminent in transforming knowledge into economic value, America’s system of higher education must remain the world’s leader in generating scientific and technological breakthrough, and in meeting the challenge to educate workers.
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The need for values is inbred. Their content is not.
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Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the confiscation of wealth.If I seem unduly clear to you, you must have misunderstood what I said.
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The number one problem in today’s generation and economy is the lack of financial literacy.
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What an ideology is is a conceptual framework with the way people deal with reality.
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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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Greenspan, who knew so much more than most, knew far less than most supposed.
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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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If one grasps this, one has no difficulty in understanding the statists’ antagonism toward the gold standard.
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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.
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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 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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We cannot rule out a situation in which a preemptive policy tightening becomes necessary.
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