I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil.
ALAN GREENSPANGiven our inevitably incomplete knowledge about key structural aspects of our ever-changing economy and the sometimes asymmetric costs or benefits of particular outcomes, a central bank.
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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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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Clearly, sustained low inflation implies less uncertainty about the future, and lower risk premiums imply higher prices of stocks and other earning assets.
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Since I’ve become a central banker, I’ve learned to mumble with great incoherence.
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History cannot be reduced to a set of statistics and probabilities.
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History has not dealt kindly with the aftermath of protracted periods of low risk premiums.
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The number one problem in today’s generation and economy is the lack of financial literacy.
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These days, even out of office, I still read economic reports.
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If we allow terrorism to undermine our freedom of action, we could reverse at least part of the palpable gains achieved by postwar globalization. It is incumbent upon us not to allow that to happen.
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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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I’m always amazed that my wife can handle different subjects – one day politics, the next day foreign policy.
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It signals problems with respect to currency markets. Central banks should pay attention to it.
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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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Without calling the overall national issue a bubble, it’s pretty clear that it’s an unsustainable underlying pattern.
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Gold still represents the ultimate form of payment in the world.
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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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