In general, corruption tends to exist whenever governments have favors to extend, or something to sell.
ALAN GREENSPANHow do we know when irrational exuberance has unduly escalated asset values?
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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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And the percentage changes in wage rates would be the same for all job grades.
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I love facts and figures. It’s like following a detective story, piecing together what’s going on in the economy.
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They seem to sense… that gold and economic freedom are inseparable.
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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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Political decisions are never random and will always lose out to innovative alternatives.
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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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Even though some down payments are borrowed, it would take a large, and historically most unusual, fall in home prices to wipe out a significant part of home equity.
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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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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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Some succeed for a time. But while there may occasionally be mis-configurations among market prices that allow abnormal returns, they do not persist.
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[Republicans] swapped principle for power. They ended up with neither. They deserved to lose.
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In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation.
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I have one other issue I’d like to throw on the table. I hesitate to do it, but let me tell you some of the issues that are involved here.
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The abandonment of the gold standard made it possible for the welfare statists to use the banking system as a means to an unlimited expansion of credit.
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