Gold stands in the way of this insidious process. It stands as a protector of property rights.
ALAN GREENSPANIt is this superlatively moral system that the welfare statists propose to improve upon by means of preventative law, snooping bureaucrats, and the chronic goad of fear.
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Unfortunately, Senator, nobody knows where the next innovative idea is coming from.
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I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil.
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I don’t think it’s possible for the Fed to end its easy-money policies in a trouble-free manner.
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If I seem unduly clear to you, you must have misunderstood what I said.
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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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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.
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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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There’s an interesting question here because if the gold price broke in that context, the thermometer would not be just a measuring tool. It would basically affect the underlying psychology.
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Crony capitalism is essentially a condition in which… public officials are giving favours to people in the private sector in payment of political favours.
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I came to a stark realization: chronic surpluses could be almost as destabilizing as chronic deficits.
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Remember what we’re looking at. Gold is a currency. It is still, by all evidence, a premier currency, that no fiat currency, including the dollar, can match.
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But material success is possible in this world and far more satisfying when it comes without exploiting others.
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Now, I only play very occasionally, and in fact, more piano than clarinet or sax.
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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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Protectionism will do little to create jobs and if foreigners retaliate, we will surely lose jobs.
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