The probability of ten consecutive heads is 0.1 percent; thus, when you have millions of coin tossers, or investors, in the end there will be thousands of very successful practitioners of coin tossing, or stock picking.
ALAN GREENSPANIt’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.
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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The arts develop skills and habits of mind that are important for workers in the new economy of ideas.
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Greenspan, who knew so much more than most, knew far less than most supposed.
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Gold stands in the way of this insidious process. It stands as a protector of property rights.
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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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If we were to do that we would increase the supply of skilled workers that our schools have been unable to create and as a consequence of that we would lower the average wage of skills and reduce the degree of income inequality in this country.
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You can’t have the capitalist system if an increasing number of people think it is unjust.
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Capitalism is based on self-interest and self-esteem; it holds integrity and trustworthiness as cardinal virtues and makes them pay off in the marketplace, thus demanding that men survive by means of virtue, not vices.
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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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I believe that the general growth in large [financial] institutions have occurred in the context of an underlying structure of markets in which many of the larger risks are dramatically — I should say, fully — hedged.
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I have long argued that paying down the national debt is beneficial for the economy.
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Since I’ve become a central banker, I’ve learned to mumble with great incoherence.
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The process of innovation is, of course, never ending.
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I’ve always argued that this country has benefited immensely from the fact that we draw people from all over the world.
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I’m a plain soap kind of guy.
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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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