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System Quotes by Alan Greenspan
- Gold, unlike all other commodities, is a currency...and the major thrust in the demand for gold is not for jewelry. It's not for anything other…
- 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…
- ...our market system depends critically on trust-trust in the word of our colleagues and trust in the word of those with whom we do business.
- 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…
- What a sound money system does is to stabilize all the elements in it, and reduces the uncertainty that people confront. And the one thing…
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