They then need to reach a judgment about the probabilities, costs, and benefits of the various possible outcomes under alternative choices for policy.
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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What we have found over the years in the marketplace is that derivatives have been an extraordinarily useful vehicle to transfer risk from those who shouldn’t be taking it to those who are willing to and are capable of doing so.
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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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It signals problems with respect to currency markets. Central banks should pay attention to it.
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Fiat money in extremis is accepted by nobody. Gold is always accepted.
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Gold still represents the ultimate form of payment in the world.
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The Iraq War is largely about oil.
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Was sort of intellectually shocked. Contagion is the critical phenomenon which causes the thing to fall apart.
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I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil.
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The more flexible an economy, the greater its ability to self-correct in response to inevitable, often unanticipated, disturbances and thus to contain the size and consequences of cyclical imbalances.
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Corruption, embezzlement, fraud, these are all characteristics which exist everywhere.
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Credit-default swaps, I think, have serious problems associated with them.
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Crony capitalism is essentially a condition in which… public officials are giving favours to people in the private sector in payment of political favours.
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I’m not denying that monopolies are terrible things, but I am denying that it is readily easy to resolve them through legislation of that nature.
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It’s hard to overemphasize how important Ford’s deregulation was. True, most of the benefits took years to unfold-rail freight rates, for example hardly budged at first.
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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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