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If you think you understand what I am saying you do not understand what I am saying.

Alan Greenspan

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.
ALAN GREENSPAN

Group Minute Pleasantries Political Rhetoric Security Solve
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.
ALAN GREENSPAN

Bitcoin Blue Bubble Imagination Intrinsic Really Stretch
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 GREENSPAN

Country Decade Escalate Irrational Past Subject
Nor can private counterparties restrict supplies of gold, another commodity whose derivatives are often traded over-the-counter, where central banks stand ready to lease gold in increasing quantities should the price rise.
ALAN GREENSPAN

Another Commodity Counterparty Derivative Gold Often Private Restrict Supply Trade
The true measure of a career is to be able to be content, even proud, that you succeeded through your own endeavors without leaving a trail of casualties in your wake.
ALAN GREENSPAN

Able Content Leave Measure Own Succeeded True
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.
ALAN GREENSPAN

Coin Consecutive Head Investor Million Percent Pick Probably Stock Ten Tosser
It keeps interest rates lower than they otherwise would be and frees savings to finance increases in the capital stock, thereby boosting productivity and real incomes.
ALAN GREENSPAN

Boost Finance Free Income Increase Interest Keep Lower Productive Rate Real Saving
I’ve always argued that this country has benefited immensely from the fact that we draw people from all over the world.
ALAN GREENSPAN

All Always Argue Benefited Country Draw Fact Immensely Over People World
I don’t think it’s possible for the Fed to end its easy-money policies in a trouble-free manner.
ALAN GREENSPAN

End Free Manner Money Policy Possible Think
Clearly, sustained low inflation implies less uncertainty about the future, and lower risk premiums imply higher prices of stocks and other earning assets.
ALAN GREENSPAN

Asset Clearly Earning Higher Imply Inflation Less Lower Premium Risk Stock Sustain
There are no easy choices. Easy choices are long gone.
ALAN GREENSPAN

Choice Easy Gone Long No
And whatever their publicized angst over Saddam Hussein’s ‘weapons of mass destruction.
ALAN GREENSPAN

Destruction Mass Over Publicize Weapon Whatever
Fiat money in extremis is accepted by nobody. Gold is always accepted.
ALAN GREENSPAN

Accept Extremis Fiat God Money Nobody
Political decisions are never random and will always lose out to innovative alternatives.
ALAN GREENSPAN

Alternative Decision Innovative Lose Political Random
Gold still represents the ultimate form of payment in the world.
ALAN GREENSPAN

Gold Payment Represent Ultimate World
I have one other issue I’d like to throw on the table. I hesitate to do it, but let me tell you some of the issues that are involved here.
ALAN GREENSPAN

Hesitate Issue Other Some Table Throw

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