I don’t think it’s possible for the Fed to end its easy-money policies in a trouble-free manner.
ALAN GREENSPANThe process of innovation is, of course, never ending.
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We need, in effect, to make the phantom ‘lock-boxes’ around the trust fund real.
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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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I believe that the general growth in large [financial] institutions have occurred in the context of an underlying structure of markets in which many of the larger risks are dramatically — I should say, fully — hedged.
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The process of innovation is, of course, never ending.
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While local economies may experience significant price imbalances, a national severe price distortion seems most unlikely in the United States, given its size and diversity.
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There are no easy choices. Easy choices are long gone.
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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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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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Was sort of intellectually shocked. Contagion is the critical phenomenon which causes the thing to fall apart.
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There is no safe store of value. Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the hidden confiscation of wealth.
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Significantly opening up immigration to skilled workers solves two problems.
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I have long argued that paying down the national debt is beneficial for the economy.
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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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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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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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Fiat money in extremis is accepted by nobody. Gold is always accepted.
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If I’ve made myself clear, I’ve misspoken.
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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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They seem to sense… that gold and economic freedom are inseparable.
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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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And the percentage changes in wage rates would be the same for all job grades.
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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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Clearly, sustained low inflation implies less uncertainty about the future, and lower risk premiums imply higher prices of stocks and other earning assets.
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In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation.
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The need for values is inbred. Their content is not.
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There is no evidence that the business cycle has been repealed.
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