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It’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.

Alan Greenspan

It’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.
ALAN GREENSPAN

Bitcoin Blue Bubble Imagination Intrinsic Really Stretch
I came to a stark realization: chronic surpluses could be almost as destabilizing as chronic deficits.
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Almost Came Deficit Destabilize Chronic Realization Stark Surplus
Those of us who have looked to the self-interest of lending institutions to protect shareholders’ equity are in a state of shocked disbelief.
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Disbelief Institution Interest Lend Self Shareholder Shock
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
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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Commodity Currency Demand God Gold Jewelry Thrust Unlike
Excessive optimism shows the seeds of its own reversal in the form of imbalances that tend to grow over time.
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Excessive Grow Over Own Reversal Seed Show Time
And whatever their publicized angst over Saddam Hussein’s ‘weapons of mass destruction.
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Destruction Mass Over Publicize Weapon Whatever
Regulation – which is based on force and fear – undermines the moral base of business dealings. It becomes cheaper to bribe a building inspector than to meet his standards of construction. Protection of the consumer by regulation is thus illusory.
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Base Business Deal Fear Force Regulation Undermine
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
People dont realize that we cannot forecast the future. What we can do is have probabilities of what causes what, but thats as far as we go. And Ive had a very successful career as a forecaster, starting in 1948 forward.
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Cannot Cause Far Forecast Future Go People Realize Probability
You can’t have the capitalist system if an increasing number of people think it is unjust.
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Capitalist Increase Number People System Unjust
Greenspan, who knew so much more than most, knew far less than most supposed.
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Far Greenspan Knew Less More Most Suppose
The recent evidence increasingly suggests that an economic expansion is already well under way, although an array of influences unique to this business cycle seems likely to moderate its speed.
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Already Economic Evidence Expansion Increasingly Influence Recent Suggest Underway Well
I was raising the question on the side with Governor Mullins of what would happen if the Treasury sold a little gold in this market.
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Gold Governor Happen Little Market Question Raise Treasury
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
Enhances a person’s ability to handle the more ambiguous and qualitative relationships that dominate our day-to-day financial decision-making
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Ability Ambiguous Decision Dominate Enhance Financial Making Person Quantitative Relationship

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It’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.

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