If one grasps this, one has no difficulty in understanding the statists’ antagonism toward the gold standard.
ALAN GREENSPANProtectionism will do little to create jobs and if foreigners retaliate, we will surely lose jobs.
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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We cannot rule out a situation in which a preemptive policy tightening becomes necessary.
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Since I’ve become a central banker, I’ve learned to mumble with great incoherence.
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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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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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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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There is no safe store of value. Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the hidden confiscation of wealth.
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Regulation – which is based on force and fear – undermines the moral base of business dealings. It becomes cheaper to bribe a building inspector than to meet his standards of construction. Protection of the consumer by regulation is thus illusory.
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Productivity is notoriously difficult to predict.
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All taxes are a drag on economic growth. It’s only a question of degree.
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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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They then need to reach a judgment about the probabilities, costs, and benefits of the various possible outcomes under alternative choices for policy.
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Political decisions are never random and will always lose out to innovative alternatives.
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The only effective regulation lies in the propensity of customers to choose alternatives, of investors to move their funds elsewhere and of labour to acquire technical skills’.
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Amateurs want to be right. Professionals want to make money.
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History has not dealt kindly with the aftermath of protracted periods of low risk premiums.
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