I love facts and figures. It’s like following a detective story, piecing together what’s going on in the economy.
ALAN GREENSPANRegulation of derivatives transactions that are privately negotiated by professionals is unnecessary.
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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If I say something which you understand fully in this regard, I probably made a mistake.
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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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What we have found over the years in the marketplace is that derivatives have been an extraordinarily useful vehicle to transfer risk from those who shouldn’t be taking it to those who are willing to and are capable of doing so.
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Even though some down payments are borrowed, it would take a large, and historically most unusual, fall in home prices to wipe out a significant part of home equity.
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The gut-feel of the 55-year old trader is more important than the mathematical elegance of the 25-year old genius.
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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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When trust is lost, a nation’s ability to transact business is palpably undermined.
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[Republicans] swapped principle for power. They ended up with neither. They deserved to lose.
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I think that real pressure is going to occur not by the initiation by the Federal Reserve, but by the markets themselves.
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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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Gold stands in the way of this insidious process. It stands as a protector of property rights.
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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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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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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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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.
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