Credit-default swaps, I think, have serious problems associated with them.
ALAN GREENSPANWe cannot rule out a situation in which a preemptive policy tightening becomes necessary.
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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If all currencies are moving up or down together, the question is: relative to what? Gold is the canary in the coal mine.
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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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To succeed, you will soon learn, as I did, the importance of a solid foundation in the basics of education – literacy, both verbal and numerical, and communication skills.
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The need for values is inbred. Their content is not.
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Well, you probably will always believe there should be laws against fraud, and I don’t think there is any need for a law against fraud.
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There is nothing to guarantee the superior judgment, knowledge, and integrity of an inspector or a bureaucrat-and the deadly consequences of entrusting him with arbitrary power are obvious.
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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 seems superfluous to constrain trading in some of the newer derivatives and other innovative financial contracts of the past decade.
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History has not dealt kindly with the aftermath of protracted periods of low risk premiums.
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Amateurs want to be right. Professionals want to make money.
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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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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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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 free lunch has still to be invented.
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The United States can pay any debt it has because we can always print money to do that. So there is zero probability of default.
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