In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation.
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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And whatever their publicized angst over Saddam Hussein’s ‘weapons of mass destruction.
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And she always has so much fun doing it. We make a good team.
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You can’t have the capitalist system if an increasing number of people think it is unjust.
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It seems superfluous to constrain trading in some of the newer derivatives and other innovative financial contracts of the past decade.
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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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Without calling the overall national issue a bubble, it’s pretty clear that it’s an unsustainable underlying pattern.
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If prices go down, we will have problems – problems in the sense of spillover to other areas.
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The Iraq War is largely about oil.
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I’m not denying that monopolies are terrible things, but I am denying that it is readily easy to resolve them through legislation of that nature.
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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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These days, even out of office, I still read economic reports.
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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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In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store of value.
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The tub helps me relax, and it’s a great place to read.
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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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Anything that we can do to raise personal savings is very much in the interest of this country.
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It’s hard to overemphasize how important Ford’s deregulation was. True, most of the benefits took years to unfold-rail freight rates, for example hardly budged at first.
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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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Any onset of increased investor caution elevates risk premiums and, as a consequence, lowers asset values and promotes the liquidation of the debt that supported higher asset prices.
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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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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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Well, you probably will always believe there should be laws against fraud, and I don’t think there is any need for a law against fraud.
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It is this superlatively moral system that the welfare statists propose to improve upon by means of preventative law, snooping bureaucrats, and the chronic goad of fear.
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I have one other issue I’d like to throw on the table. I hesitate to do it, but let me tell you some of the issues that are involved here.
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The process of innovation is, of course, never ending.
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As long as we issue fiat currency, I see no alternative to a legal tender law.
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