Gold stands in the way of this insidious process. It stands as a protector of property rights.
ALAN GREENSPANIf you think you understand what I am saying you do not understand what I am saying.
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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No matter how skillful the trading scheme, over the long haul, abnormal returns are sustained only through abnormal exposure to risk.
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The free lunch has still to be invented.
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Greenspan, who knew so much more than most, knew far less than most supposed.
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Then fear hits, and it comes down very sharply. When I started to look at that.
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An almost hysterical antagonism toward the gold standard is one issue which unites statists of all persuasions.
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What we have found over the years in the marketplace is that derivatives have been an extraordinarily useful vehicle to transfer risk from those who shouldn’t be taking it to those who are willing to and are capable of doing so.
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What an ideology is is a conceptual framework with the way people deal with reality.
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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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All taxes are a drag on economic growth. It’s only a question of degree.
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History demonstrates that participants in financial markets are susceptible to waves of optimism.
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And whatever their publicized angst over Saddam Hussein’s ‘weapons of mass destruction.
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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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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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Improvements in lending practices driven by information technology have enabled lenders to reach out to households with previously unrecognized borrowing capacities.
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I’m a plain soap kind of guy.
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