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?
ALAN GREENSPANPolitical decisions are never random and will always lose out to innovative alternatives.
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The use of a growing array of derivatives and the related application of more-sophisticated approaches to measuring and managing risk are key factors underpinning the greater resilience of our largest financial institutions…
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These days, even out of office, I still read economic reports.
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Fear and euphoria are dominant forces, and fear is many multiples the size of euphoria. Bubbles go up very slowly as euphoria builds.
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Since I’ve become a central banker, I’ve learned to mumble with great incoherence.
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It has been my experience that competency in mathematics, both in numerical manipulations and in understanding its conceptual foundations.
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Fiat money in extremis is accepted by nobody. Gold is always accepted.
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I love facts and figures. It’s like following a detective story, piecing together what’s going on in the economy.
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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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While these tendencies were no doubt in train in the “old,” pre-1990s economy, they accelerated over the past decade as a number of technologies with their roots in the cumulative innovations of the past half-century began to yield dramatic economic returns.
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All taxes are a drag on economic growth. It’s only a question of degree.
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The recent period has been marked by a transformation to an economy that is more productive as competitive forces become increasingly intense and new technologies raise the efficiency of our businesses…
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Gold, unlike all other commodities, is a currency…and the major thrust in the demand for gold is not for jewelry.
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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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I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil.
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Senator, if I seem clear to you, you must have misunderstood me’.
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