"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 all human beings do when they are confronted with uncertainty is pull back, withdraw, disengage, and that means economic activity, which is really dealing with people, just goes straight down."

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Alan Greenspan is an American economist who served as chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve from 1987 to 2006.

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