Market financed withdrawals of home equity in recent years.
ALAN GREENSPANExcessive optimism shows the seeds of its own reversal in the form of imbalances that tend to grow over time.
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The Iraq War is largely about oil.
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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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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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Then fear hits, and it comes down very sharply. When I started to look at that.
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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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They seem to sense… that gold and economic freedom are inseparable.
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The number one problem in today’s generation and economy is the lack of financial literacy.
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History demonstrates that participants in financial markets are susceptible to waves of optimism.
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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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We may be in a rapidly evolving international financial system with all the bells and whistles of the so-called new economy. But the old-economy rules of prudence are as formidable as ever. We violate them at our own peril.
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I made a mistake in presuming that the self-interests of organisations, specifically banks and others, were such that they were best capable of protecting their own shareholders and their equity in the firms.
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Stripped of its academic jargon, the welfare state is nothing more than a mechanism by which governments confiscate the wealth of the productive members of a society to support a wide variety of welfare schemes.
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This is the reason that history has not dealt kindly with the aftermath of protracted periods of low risk premiums.
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Political decisions are never random and will always lose out to innovative alternatives.
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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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