These days, even out of office, I still read economic reports.
ALAN GREENSPANIf all currencies are moving up or down together, the question is: relative to what? Gold is the canary in the coal mine.
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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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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If I say something which you understand fully in this regard, I probably made a mistake.
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Significantly opening up immigration to skilled workers solves two problems.
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But how do we know when irrational exuberance has unduly escalated asset values, which then become subject to unexpected and prolonged contractions as they have in Japan over the past decade?
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The current financial crisis in the US is likely to be judged in retrospect as the most wrenching since the end of the Second World War.
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And the percentage changes in wage rates would be the same for all job grades.
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We will have more crises and none of them will look like this because no two crises have anything in common except human nature.
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In an economy that already has lost some momentum, one must remain alert to the possibility that greater caution and weakening asset values in financial markets could signal or precipitate an excessive softening in household and business spending.
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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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We need, in effect, to make the phantom ‘lock-boxes’ around the trust fund real.
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Regulators have not been able to achieve the level of future clarity required to act pre-emptively.
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They seem to sense… that gold and economic freedom are inseparable.
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Many of those who purchased their residence more than a year ago have equity buffers in their homes adequate to withstand any price decline other than a very deep one.
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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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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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