Fiat money in extremis is accepted by nobody. Gold is always accepted.
ALAN GREENSPANAnything that we can do to raise personal savings is very much in the interest of this country.
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Given our inevitably incomplete knowledge about key structural aspects of our ever-changing economy and the sometimes asymmetric costs or benefits of particular outcomes, a central bank.
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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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We are in the midst of a once-in-a-century credit tsunami. Central banks and governments are being required to take unprecedented measures.
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No one has ever eliminated any of that stuff.
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Greenspan, who knew so much more than most, knew far less than most supposed.
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It is decidedly not true that “nice guys finish last,” as that highly original American baseball philosopher, Leo Durocher, was alleged to have said.
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I don’t know where the stock market is going, but I will say this, that if it continues higher, this will do more to stimulate the economy than anything we’ve been talking about today or anything anybody else was talking about.
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In general, corruption tends to exist whenever governments have favors to extend, or something to sell.
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We ought to be opening up our borders to skilled labour from all parts of the world because [the state of the world is as follows: ].
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Then fear hits, and it comes down very sharply. When I started to look at that.
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To succeed, you will soon learn, as I did, the importance of a solid foundation in the basics of education – literacy, both verbal and numerical, and communication skills.
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American consumers might benefit if lenders provided greater mortgage product alternatives to the traditional fixed-rate mortgage.
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Recent episodes in which Fed officials hinted at a shift toward higher interest rates have unleashed significant volatility in markets.
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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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In the process we have created [a] privileged elite whose incomes are being supported at non-competitively high levels by immigration quotas on skilled professionals.
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