If prices go down, we will have problems - problems in the sense of spillover to other areas.

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 than an escape from what is perceived to be a fiat money system, paper money, that seems to be deteriorating.

Without calling the overall national issue a bubble, it's pretty clear that it's an unsustainable underlying pattern.

All taxes are a drag on economic growth. It's only a question of degree.

By far the most significant event in finance during the past decade has been the extraordinary development and expansion of financial derivatives.

Anything that we can do to raise personal savings is very much in the interest of this country.

We will have more crises and none of them will look like this because no two crises have anything in common except human nature.