We are in the midst of a once-in-a-century credit tsunami. Central banks and governments are being required to take unprecedented measures.
ALAN GREENSPANGold, unlike all other commodities, is a currency…and the major thrust in the demand for gold is not for jewelry.
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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Credit-default swaps, I think, have serious problems associated with them.
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Greenspan, who knew so much more than most, knew far less than most supposed.
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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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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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The economy is turning, and credit comes in with a lag, .. To the extent that a number of small firms are finding it difficult to get the credit they need at a price they can afford, that’s likely to change for the better.
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Regulation of derivatives transactions that are privately negotiated by professionals is unnecessary.
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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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The gut-feel of the 55-year old trader is more important than the mathematical elegance of the 25-year old genius.
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Any onset of increased investor caution elevates risk premiums and, as a consequence, lowers asset values and promotes the liquidation of the debt that supported higher asset prices.
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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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The tub helps me relax, and it’s a great place to read.
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At the risk of some oversimplification, if the skill composition of our work force meshed fully with the needs of our increasingly complex capital-stock, wage-skill differentials would be stable.
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All taxes are a drag on economic growth. It’s only a question of degree.
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The problem is not lack of regulation but unrealistic expectations. What we confront in reality is uncertainty, some of it frighteningly so…
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They seem to sense… that gold and economic freedom are inseparable.
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