And she always has so much fun doing it. We make a good team.
ALAN GREENSPANThe United States can pay any debt it has because we can always print money to do that. So there is zero probability of default.
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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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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Without calling the overall national issue a bubble, it’s pretty clear that it’s an unsustainable underlying pattern.
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We need, in effect, to make the phantom ‘lock-boxes’ around the trust fund real.
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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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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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If you get beyond the political rhetoric [and assembled a group to solve Social Security] it would take them 15 minutes. It would take them 15 minutes only because 10 minutes was used for pleasantries.
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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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No one has ever eliminated any of that stuff.
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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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Senator, if I seem clear to you, you must have misunderstood me’.
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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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But rules cannot substitute for character.
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When trust is lost, a nation’s ability to transact business is palpably undermined.
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Since I’ve become a central banker, I’ve learned to mumble with great incoherence.
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It’s a bubble. It has to have intrinsic value. You have to really stretch your imagination to infer what the intrinsic value of Bitcoin is. I haven’t been able to do it. Maybe somebody else can.
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