Gold, unlike all other commodities, is a currency…and the major thrust in the demand for gold is not for jewelry.
ALAN GREENSPANAmateurs want to be right. Professionals want to make money.
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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If I’ve made myself clear, I’ve misspoken.
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Stripped of its academic jargon, the welfare state is nothing more than a mechanism by which governments confiscate the wealth of the productive members of a society to support a wide variety of welfare schemes.
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If you think you understand what I am saying you do not understand what I am saying.
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American and British authorities were also concerned about violence in an area that harbors a resource indispensable for the functioning of the word economy.
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And whatever their publicized angst over Saddam Hussein’s ‘weapons of mass destruction.
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Unfortunately, Senator, nobody knows where the next innovative idea is coming from.
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Skilled shortages in America exist because we are shielding our skilled labor force from world competition. [Visa quotas] have been substituted for the wage pricing mechanism.
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The increased flexibility of our economy, which has fostered our extraordinary resilience to shocks.
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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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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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We can see that in the inverse relationship exhibited by price/earnings ratios and the rate of inflation in the past.
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Senator, we are groping for understanding, the knowledge you assume I possess doesn’t exist’.
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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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Those of us who have looked to the self-interest of lending institutions to protect shareholders’ equity are in a state of shocked disbelief.
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Any informed borrower is simply less vulnerable to fraud and abuse.
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