As long as we issue fiat currency, I see no alternative to a legal tender law.
ALAN GREENSPANPeople dont realize that we cannot forecast the future. What we can do is have probabilities of what causes what, but thats as far as we go. And Ive had a very successful career as a forecaster, starting in 1948 forward.
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This is the reason that history has not dealt kindly with the aftermath of protracted periods of low risk premiums.
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I was a fairly good amateur musician, and I was an average professional. But the one thing I saw was that the big band business was fading.
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I was a good amateur but only an average professional. I soon realized that there was a limit to how far I could rise in the music business, so I left the band and enrolled at New York University.
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They seem to sense… that gold and economic freedom are inseparable.
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So there is no reason to suspect that the actual process of boosting rates would be any different.
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Yet deregulation set the stage for an enormous wave of creative destruction in the 1980s.
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Gold still represents the ultimate form of payment in the world.
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I didn’t believe in absolutes, moral or otherwise. If I couldn’t prove a proposition with facts and figures, it was without merit.
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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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The tub helps me relax, and it’s a great place to read.
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If we were to do that we would increase the supply of skilled workers that our schools have been unable to create and as a consequence of that we would lower the average wage of skills and reduce the degree of income inequality in this country.
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Capitalism is based on self-interest and self-esteem; it holds integrity and trustworthiness as cardinal virtues and makes them pay off in the marketplace, thus demanding that men survive by means of virtue, not vices.
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We can guarantee cash benefits as far out and at whatever size you like, but we cannot guarantee their purchasing power.
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The process of innovation is, of course, never ending.
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Cash is available and we should use that in larger amounts, as is necessary, to solve the problems of the stress of this.
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