If I seem unduly clear to you, you must have misunderstood what I said.
ALAN GREENSPANNo matter how skillful the trading scheme, over the long haul, abnormal returns are sustained only through abnormal exposure to risk.
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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Whatever you tax you get less of.
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I think that real pressure is going to occur not by the initiation by the Federal Reserve, but by the markets themselves.
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Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the ‘hidden’ confiscation of wealth.
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Although the outlook is clouded by a number of uncertainties, the central tendencies of the projections .. imply continued good economic performance in the United States.
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I have found no greater satisfaction than achieving success through honest dealing and strict adherence to the view that, for you to gain, those you deal with should gain as well.
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History cannot be reduced to a set of statistics and probabilities.
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Given our inevitably incomplete knowledge about key structural aspects of our ever-changing economy and the sometimes asymmetric costs or benefits of particular outcomes, a central bank.
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Fiat money in extremis is accepted by nobody. Gold is always accepted.
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And the percentage changes in wage rates would be the same for all job grades.
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To succeed, you will soon learn, as I did, the importance of a solid foundation in the basics of education – literacy, both verbal and numerical, and communication skills.
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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 is no safe store of value. Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the hidden confiscation of wealth.
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The current financial crisis in the US is likely to be judged in retrospect as the most wrenching since the end of the Second World War.
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How do we know when irrational exuberance has unduly escalated asset values?
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But rules cannot substitute for character.
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