Whatever you tax you get less of.
ALAN GREENSPANDeficit spending is simply a scheme for the confiscation of wealth.If I seem unduly clear to you, you must have misunderstood what I said.
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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And the percentage changes in wage rates would be the same for all job grades.
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Greenspan, who knew so much more than most, knew far less than most supposed.
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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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But material success is possible in this world and far more satisfying when it comes without exploiting others.
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The Iraq War is largely about oil.
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Excessive optimism sows the seeds of its own reversal.
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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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We cannot rule out a situation in which a preemptive policy tightening becomes necessary.
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Productivity is notoriously difficult to predict.
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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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Credit-default swaps, I think, have serious problems associated with them.
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I don’t think it’s possible for the Fed to end its easy-money policies in a trouble-free manner.
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There is no safe store of value. Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the hidden confiscation of wealth.
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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’m a plain soap kind of guy.
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