Any informed borrower is simply less vulnerable to fraud and abuse. — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
By far the most significant event in finance during the past decade has been the extraordinary development and expansion of financial derivatives. — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
Stripped of its academic jargon, the welfare state is nothing more than a mechanism by which governments confiscate the wealth of the… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
The very nature of finance is that it cannot be profitable unless it is significantly leveraged... and as long as there is… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
What we have found over the years in the marketplace is that derivatives have been an extraordinarily useful vehicle to transfer risk… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
Institutions of the newer participants in global finance had not been tested, until recently...recent crisis have underscored certain financial structure vulnerabilities that… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
It has been my experience that competency in mathematics, both in numerical manipulations and in understanding its conceptual foundations, enhances a person's… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
It seems superfluous to constrain trading in some of the newer derivatives and other innovative financial contracts of the past decade. The… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
I have long argued that paying down the national debt is beneficial for the economy: it keeps interest rates lower than they… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
Crony capitalism is essentially a condition in which... public officials are giving favours to people in the private sector in payment of political favours. — Alan Greenspan Copy Share
At the risk of some oversimplification, if the skill composition of our work force meshed fully with the needs of our increasingly complex capital-stock,… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share
To succeed, you will soon learn, as I did, the importance of a solid foundation in the basics of education - literacy, both verbal… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share
I've always argued that this country has benefited immensely from the fact that we draw people from all over the world. — Alan Greenspan Copy Share
I cannot conceive of a politically feasible solution to this problem which will overdo cutting the deficit, where overdoing means harming the economy. It… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share
Before I met Ayn Rand, I was a logical positivist, and accordingly, I didn't believe in absolutes, moral or otherwise. If I couldn't prove… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share
Skilled shortages in America exist because we are shielding our skilled labor force from world competition. [Visa quotas] have been substituted for the wage… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share
A decline in the national housing price level would need to be substantial to trigger a significant rise in foreclosures, because the vast majority… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share
Although the outlook is clouded by a number of uncertainties, the central tendencies of the projections .. imply continued good economic performance in the… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share
At the outset of the creation of the euro in 1999, it was expected that the southern eurozone economies would behave like those in… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share
We may be in a rapidly evolving international financial system with all the bells and whistles of the so-called new economy. But the old-economy… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share
The guiding purpose of the government regulator is to prevent rather than to create something. — Alan Greenspan Copy Share
...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… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share
It's hard to overemphasize how important Ford's deregulation was. True, most of the benefits took years to unfold-rail freight rates, for example hardly budged… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share
