Alan Greenspan: Несколько примечательных цитат

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( В дополнение к теме Про тех, кто "немного ошибся" )

Alan Greenspan is the most famous bureaucrat since Pontius Pilate. Like Pilate, he hesitated, but ultimately gave the mob what it wanted. Not blood, but bubbles. Greenspan's role in the empire is more than that of a Consul or a Proconsul. He is the Prefect. He is the quartermaster who makes sure empire has the financial resources it needs to ruin itself.

Greenspan's Bubble: What Hath Alan Wrought? by Bill Bonner

Ну да, в принципе ничего нового. Хотя, отсылка к Пилату гораздо тоньше, чем кажется. Достаточно посмотреть на эти замечательные строки.

Under a gold standard, the amount of credit that an economy can support is determined by the economy's tangible assets, since every credit instrument is ultimately a claim on some tangible asset.
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In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation.
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This is the shabby secret of the welfare statists' tirades against gold. Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the confiscation of wealth. Gold stands in the way of this insidious process. It stands as a protector of property rights. If one grasps this, one has no difficulty in understanding the statists' antagonism toward the gold standard.

Вроде, ничего необычного. Однако, кто автор? Сам Alan Greenspan, год 1967 Вот так-то.

Early greenscam was not a Friedmanite, he was even more rooted in free market in the Misesian mold.

His whole life became a lie, the moment he became and advisor to Richard M Nixon.

Recently, Fox business interviewed Greenscam ( from 2007-08 ), which is floating around on youtube, where Greenscam, in a moment of honesty, said that he still believes in Gold standard. His 19 years at the helm of the politbureau, was a complete lie, he was doing something he never believed in.

http://cafehayek.typepad.com/hayek/2008/10/milton-friedm-1.html