All taxes are a drag on economic growth. It's only a question of degree. — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
Since 1948 I have spent every single day thinking how the economic and political worlds have changed. — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
Although the outlook is clouded by a number of uncertainties, the central tendencies of the projections .. imply continued good economic performance… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
I was a fairly good amateur musician, and I was an average professional. But the one thing I saw was that the… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
The only way you get economic progress, real standards of living moving higher, is to have the savings of the society continuously… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
Much fiscal policy is implemented, not through spending increases, but through tax credits and other so-called tax expenditures. The markets should respond… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
An almost hysterical antagonism toward the gold standard is one issue which unites statists of all persuasions. They seem to sense... that… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
The only thing that was economic, I might say, about my music career, aside from the fact that I did everybody's tax… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
The recent evidence increasingly suggests that an economic expansion is already well under way, although an array of influences unique to this… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
The recent period has been marked by a transformation to an economy that is more productive as competitive forces become increasingly intense… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
What a sound money system does is to stabilize all the elements in it, and reduces the uncertainty that people confront. And… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
If we are to remain preeminent in transforming knowledge into economic value, America's system of higher education must remain the world's leader… — 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
