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Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the confiscation of wealth.If I seem unduly clear to you, you must have misunderstood what I said.

Alan Greenspan

Regulators have not been able to achieve the level of future clarity required to act pre-emptively.
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Able Archive Been Clarity Emotively Future Pre Regulator Require
In an economy that already has lost some momentum, one must remain alert to the possibility that greater caution and weakening asset values in financial markets could signal or precipitate an excessive softening in household and business spending.
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Already Asset Business Caution Economy Great Lost Momentum Must Possibly Predictable Remain Spend Weakness
There’s an interesting question here because if the gold price broke in that context, the thermometer would not be just a measuring tool. It would basically affect the underlying psychology.
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Context Mean Price Psychology Thermometer Underlying
The need for values is inbred. Their content is not.
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Content Inbred Need Value
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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Benefit Deregulation Hard Important Look Overemphasize True Year
If we are to remain preeminent in transforming knowledge into economic value, America’s system of higher education must remain the world’s leader in generating scientific and technological breakthrough, and in meeting the challenge to educate workers.
ALAN GREENSPAN

Economic Knowledge Preeminent Remain Transform Value
Political decisions are never random and will always lose out to innovative alternatives.
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Alternative Decision Innovative Lose Political Random
And whatever their publicized angst over Saddam Hussein’s ‘weapons of mass destruction.
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Destruction Mass Over Publicize Weapon Whatever
Clearly, sustained low inflation implies less uncertainty about the future, and lower risk premiums imply higher prices of stocks and other earning assets.
ALAN GREENSPAN

Asset Clearly Earning Higher Imply Inflation Less Lower Premium Risk Stock Sustain
We can guarantee cash benefits as far out and at whatever size you like, but we cannot guarantee their purchasing power.
ALAN GREENSPAN

Benefit Cash Guarantee Like Power Purchase
We as central bankers need not be concerned if a collapsing financial asset bubble does not threaten to impair the real economy, its production, jobs and price stability.
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Asset Banker Bubble Central Collapse Concern Do Economy Financial Threaten
They seem to sense… that gold and economic freedom are inseparable.
ALAN GREENSPAN

Economic Freedom Gold Inseparable See Sense
If you get beyond the political rhetoric [and assembled a group to solve Social Security] it would take them 15 minutes. It would take them 15 minutes only because 10 minutes was used for pleasantries.
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Group Minute Pleasantries Political Rhetoric Security Solve
The free lunch has still to be invented.
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Free Invent Lunch Still
The true measure of a career is to be able to be content, even proud, that you succeeded through your own endeavors without leaving a trail of casualties in your wake.
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Able Content Leave Measure Own Succeeded True
Gold stands in the way of this insidious process. It stands as a protector of property rights.
ALAN GREENSPAN

Gold Insidious Process Property Protector Right Stand Way

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