I guess I should warn you, if I turn out to be particularly clear, you’ve probably misunderstood what I’ve said.
ALAN GREENSPANTo succeed, you will soon learn, as I did, the importance of a solid foundation in the basics of education – literacy, both verbal and numerical, and communication skills.
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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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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[Republicans] swapped principle for power. They ended up with neither. They deserved to lose.
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Fiat money in extremis is accepted by nobody. Gold is always accepted.
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The process of innovation is, of course, never ending.
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The only effective regulation lies in the propensity of customers to choose alternatives, of investors to move their funds elsewhere and of labour to acquire technical skills’.
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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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We will have more crises and none of them will look like this because no two crises have anything in common except human nature.
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Regulation of derivatives transactions that are privately negotiated by professionals is unnecessary.
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If prices go down, we will have problems – problems in the sense of spillover to other areas.
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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.
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And she always has so much fun doing it. We make a good team.
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Revolutions are something you see only in retrospect.
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Was sort of intellectually shocked. Contagion is the critical phenomenon which causes the thing to fall apart.
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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 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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