Then fear hits, and it comes down very sharply. When I started to look at that.
ALAN GREENSPANHistory demonstrates that participants in financial markets are susceptible to waves of optimism.
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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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The companies could hire the educated workers they need. And those workers would compete with high-income people, driving more income equality.
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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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What an ideology is is a conceptual framework with the way people deal with reality.
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Cash is available and we should use that in larger amounts, as is necessary, to solve the problems of the stress of this.
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And she always has so much fun doing it. We make a good team.
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Derivatives have permitted the unbundling of financial risks.
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If one grasps this, one has no difficulty in understanding the statists’ antagonism toward the gold standard.
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It keeps interest rates lower than they otherwise would be and frees savings to finance increases in the capital stock, thereby boosting productivity and real incomes.
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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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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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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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Rules cannot take the place of character.
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The increased flexibility of our economy, which has fostered our extraordinary resilience to shocks.
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How do we know when irrational exuberance has unduly escalated asset values?
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