The very nature of finance is that it cannot be profitable unless it is significantly leveraged… and as long as there is debt, there can be failure and contagion.
ALAN GREENSPANI was raising the question on the side with Governor Mullins of what would happen if the Treasury sold a little gold in this market.
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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Senator, we are groping for understanding, the knowledge you assume I possess doesn’t exist’.
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I cannot conceive of a politically feasible solution to this problem which will overdo cutting the deficit, where overdoing means harming the economy. It might be technically possible, but it is not realistic.
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I have long argued that paying down the national debt is beneficial for the economy.
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It signals problems with respect to currency markets. Central banks should pay attention to it.
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Was sort of intellectually shocked. Contagion is the critical phenomenon which causes the thing to fall apart.
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Any informed borrower is simply less vulnerable to fraud and abuse.
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Well, you probably will always believe there should be laws against fraud, and I don’t think there is any need for a law against fraud.
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They seem to sense… that gold and economic freedom are inseparable.
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But rules cannot substitute for character.
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Yet deregulation set the stage for an enormous wave of creative destruction in the 1980s.
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The free lunch has still to be invented.
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Regulators have not been able to achieve the level of future clarity required to act pre-emptively.
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If prices go down, we will have problems – problems in the sense of spillover to other areas.
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Credit-default swaps, I think, have serious problems associated with them.
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We can guarantee cash benefits as far out and at whatever size you like, but we cannot guarantee their purchasing power.
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