They seem to sense… that gold and economic freedom are inseparable.
ALAN GREENSPANThere’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.
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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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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We as central bankers need not be concerned if a collapsing financial asset bubble does not threaten to impair the real economy, its production, jobs and price stability.
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The United States can pay any debt it has because we can always print money to do that. So there is zero probability of default.
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History has not dealt kindly with the aftermath of protracted periods of low risk premiums.
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Productivity is notoriously difficult to predict.
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People dont realize that we cannot forecast the future. What we can do is have probabilities of what causes what, but thats as far as we go. And Ive had a very successful career as a forecaster, starting in 1948 forward.
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It is regrettably the way human nature functions, whether we like it or not. What successful economies do is keep it to a minimum.
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Whatever you tax you get less of.
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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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I’ve always argued that this country has benefited immensely from the fact that we draw people from all over the world.
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Political decisions are never random and will always lose out to innovative alternatives.
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I made a mistake in presuming that the self-interests of organisations, specifically banks and others, were such that they were best capable of protecting their own shareholders and their equity in the firms.
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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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Yet deregulation set the stage for an enormous wave of creative destruction in the 1980s.
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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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