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Anyone willing to do what is required to become president of the United States is thereby barred from taking that office. I’m only half joking

Alan Greenspan

Gold stands in the way of this insidious process. It stands as a protector of property rights.
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Gold Insidious Process Property Protector Right Stand Way
Revolutions are something you see only in retrospect.
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Retrospect Revolution See Something
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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Academic Government Jargon Mechanism More Nothing Scheme State Strip Support Welfare
We can see that in the inverse relationship exhibited by price/earnings ratios and the rate of inflation in the past.
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Earning Exhibited Inflation Inverse Past Price Ratio Relationship See
Gold stands in the way of this insidious process. It stands as a protector of property rights.
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Gold Insidious Process Properly Right Stand
Remember what we’re looking at. Gold is a currency. It is still, by all evidence, a premier currency, that no fiat currency, including the dollar, can match.
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Currency Dollar Evidence Gold Look Premier Remember Still
The true measure of a career is to be able to be content, even proud, that you succeeded through your own endeavors without leaving a trail of casualties in your wake.
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Able Content Leave Measure Own Succeeded True
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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Continue Go Higher Market More Stock
Without the triggers, that tax cut is irreponsible fiscal policy. Eventually, I think that will be the consensus view.
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Consensus Cut Fiscal Irresponsible Policy Tax Trigger View
I was a good amateur but only an average professional. I soon realized that there was a limit to how far I could rise in the music business, so I left the band and enrolled at New York University.
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Amateur Average Business Country Enroll Good Limit Professional Realize Soon
While local economies may experience significant price imbalances, a national severe price distortion seems most unlikely in the United States, given its size and diversity.
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Distortion Economy Experience Imbalance Local National Price Seem Severe Significant
In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation.
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Absence Confiscation Good Inflation Protect Saving Standard
Yet deregulation set the stage for an enormous wave of creative destruction in the 1980s.
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Creative Destructive Enormous Stage List Yet
I must say, I never expected to see the day where I would be talking about anything other than reducing the debt, I’m running into the tyranny of zero, which is where you can’t reduce (the debt) any more
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Anything Day Expect Must Reduce Say Talk
In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store of value.
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Absence Confiscation God Inflation Protect Save
While these tendencies were no doubt in train in the “old,” pre-1990s economy, they accelerated over the past decade as a number of technologies with their roots in the cumulative innovations of the past half-century began to yield dramatic economic returns.
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Accelerate Circumstance Dramatic Economic Innovation Offer Return Tendency Train

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