Excessive optimism shows the seeds of its own reversal in the form of imbalances that tend to grow over time.
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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I’m a better economist than I was a sax player.
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While local economies may experience significant price imbalances, a national severe price distortion seems most unlikely in the United States, given its size and diversity.
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They seem to sense… that gold and economic freedom are inseparable.
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There is nothing to guarantee the superior judgment, knowledge, and integrity of an inspector or a bureaucrat-and the deadly consequences of entrusting him with arbitrary power are obvious.
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Then fear hits, and it comes down very sharply. When I started to look at that.
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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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In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation.
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If all currencies are moving up or down together, the question is: relative to what? Gold is the canary in the coal mine.
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We need, in effect, to make the phantom ‘lock-boxes’ around the trust fund real.
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No one has ever eliminated any of that stuff.
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If one grasps this, one has no difficulty in understanding the statists’ antagonism toward the gold standard.
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But how do we know when irrational exuberance has unduly escalated asset values, which then become subject to unexpected and prolonged contractions as they have in Japan over the past decade?
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What an ideology is is a conceptual framework with the way people deal with reality.
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A decline in the national housing price level would need to be substantial to trigger a significant rise in foreclosures, because the vast majority of homeowners have built up substantial equity in their homes despite large mortgage.
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The number one problem in today’s generation and economy is the lack of financial literacy.
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