When trust is lost, a nation’s ability to transact business is palpably undermined.
ALAN GREENSPANWhatever you tax you get less of.
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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I don’t know where the stock market is going, but I will say this, that if it continues higher, this will do more to stimulate the economy than anything we’ve been talking about today or anything anybody else was talking about.
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Without calling the overall national issue a bubble, it’s pretty clear that it’s an unsustainable underlying pattern.
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Protectionism will do little to create jobs and if foreigners retaliate, we will surely lose jobs.
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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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The guiding purpose of the government regulator is to prevent rather than to create something.
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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 process of innovation is, of course, never ending.
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If we are dealing with psychology, then the thermometers one uses to measure it have an effect.
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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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I was a good amateur but only an average professional. I soon realized that there was a limit to how far I could rise in the music business, so I left the band and enrolled at New York University.
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Now, I only play very occasionally, and in fact, more piano than clarinet or sax.
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…our market system depends critically on trust-trust in the word of our colleagues and trust in the word of those with whom we do business.
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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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We ought to be opening up our borders to skilled labour from all parts of the world because [the state of the world is as follows: ].
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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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