The guiding purpose of the government regulator is to prevent rather than to create something.
ALAN GREENSPANPolitical decisions are never random and will always lose out to innovative alternatives.
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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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Then fear hits, and it comes down very sharply. When I started to look at that.
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The free lunch has still to be invented.
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In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store of value.
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It’s a bubble. It has to have intrinsic value. You have to really stretch your imagination to infer what the intrinsic value of Bitcoin is. I haven’t been able to do it. Maybe somebody else can.
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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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The abandonment of the gold standard made it possible for the welfare statists to use the banking system as a means to an unlimited expansion of credit.
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In an economy that already has lost some momentum, one must remain alert to the possibility that greater caution and weakening asset values in financial markets could signal or precipitate an excessive softening in household and business spending.
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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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Gold stands in the way of this insidious process. It stands as a protector of property rights.
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Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the confiscation of wealth.If I seem unduly clear to you, you must have misunderstood what I said.
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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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Improvements in lending practices driven by information technology have enabled lenders to reach out to households with previously unrecognized borrowing capacities.
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We cannot rule out a situation in which a preemptive policy tightening becomes necessary.
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Gold still represents the ultimate form of payment in the world.
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