We can see that in the inverse relationship exhibited by price/earnings ratios and the rate of inflation in the past.
ALAN GREENSPANAmateurs want to be right. Professionals want to make money.
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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Regulation – which is based on force and fear – undermines the moral base of business dealings. It becomes cheaper to bribe a building inspector than to meet his standards of construction. Protection of the consumer by regulation is thus illusory.
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Anything that we can do to raise personal savings is very much in the interest of this country.
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The probability of ten consecutive heads is 0.1 percent; thus, when you have millions of coin tossers, or investors, in the end there will be thousands of very successful practitioners of coin tossing, or stock picking.
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Enhances a person’s ability to handle the more ambiguous and qualitative relationships that dominate our day-to-day financial decision-making
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In the process we have created [a] privileged elite whose incomes are being supported at non-competitively high levels by immigration quotas on skilled professionals.
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Clearly, sustained low inflation implies less uncertainty about the future, and lower risk premiums imply higher prices of stocks and other earning assets.
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The more flexible an economy, the greater its ability to self-correct in response to inevitable, often unanticipated, disturbances and thus to contain the size and consequences of cyclical imbalances.
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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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Gold still represents the ultimate form of payment in the world.
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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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Gold stands in the way of this insidious process. It stands as a protector of property rights.
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I love to play tennis and golf, listen to music, watch baseball and root for the Redskins.
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Well, you probably will always believe there should be laws against fraud, and I don’t think there is any need for a law against fraud.
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Excessive optimism shows the seeds of its own reversal in the form of imbalances that tend to grow over time.
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Significantly opening up immigration to skilled workers solves two problems.
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