Fiat money in extremis is accepted by nobody. Gold is always accepted.
ALAN GREENSPANI cannot conceive of a politically feasible solution to this problem which will overdo cutting the deficit, where overdoing means harming the economy. It might be technically possible, but it is not realistic.
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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As long as we issue fiat currency, I see no alternative to a legal tender law.
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I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil.
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They seem to sense… that gold and economic freedom are inseparable.
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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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The worst have failed; investors no longer fund them and are not likely to in the future.
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Senator, if I seem clear to you, you must have misunderstood me’.
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There’s an interesting question here because if the gold price broke in that context, the thermometer would not be just a measuring tool. It would basically affect the underlying psychology.
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The need for values is inbred. Their content is not.
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By far the most significant event in finance during the past decade has been the extraordinary development and expansion of financial derivatives.
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Unfortunately, Senator, nobody knows where the next innovative idea is coming from.
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I came to a stark realization: chronic surpluses could be almost as destabilizing as chronic deficits.
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American and British authorities were also concerned about violence in an area that harbors a resource indispensable for the functioning of the word economy.
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Such caution seems especially warranted with regard to the sharp rise in equity prices during the past two years. These gains have obviously raised questions of sustainability.
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Improvements in lending practices driven by information technology have enabled lenders to reach out to households with previously unrecognized borrowing capacities.
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Derivatives have permitted the unbundling of financial risks.
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