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.
ALAN GREENSPANI guess I should warn you, if I turn out to be particularly clear, you’ve probably misunderstood what I’ve said.
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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It has been my experience that competency in mathematics, both in numerical manipulations and in understanding its conceptual foundations.
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I came to a stark realization: chronic surpluses could be almost as destabilizing as chronic deficits.
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Such caution seems especially warranted with regard to the sharp rise in equity prices during the past two years. These gains have obviously raised questions of sustainability.
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Then fear hits, and it comes down very sharply. When I started to look at that.
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But rules cannot substitute for character.
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The Iraq War is largely about oil.
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Political decisions are never random and will always lose out to innovative alternatives.
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The companies could hire the educated workers they need. And those workers would compete with high-income people, driving more income equality.
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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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Everyone has one. You have to, to exist you need an ideology. The question is whether it is accurate or not.
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Since I’ve become a central banker, I’ve learned to mumble with great incoherence.
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An almost hysterical antagonism toward the gold standard is one issue which unites statists of all persuasions.
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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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Remember what we’re looking at. Gold is a currency. It is still, by all evidence, a premier currency, that no fiat currency, including the dollar, can match.
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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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