I cannot conceive of a politically feasible solution to this problem which will overdo cutting the deficit, where overdoing means harming the… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
We may be in a rapidly evolving international financial system with all the bells and whistles of the so-called new economy. But… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
I love facts and figures. It's like following a detective story, piecing together what's going on in the economy. — 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
And whatever their publicized angst over Saddam Hussein's 'weapons of mass destruction,' American and British authorities were also concerned about violence in… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
Developing protectionism regarding trade and our reluctance to place fiscal policy on a more sustainable path are threatening what may well be… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
There are winners and there are losers. And as much as we would like to help the losers, if we do it… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
The only sustainable way to increase demand for vacant houses is to spur the formation of new households. Admitting more skilled immigrants,… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
I don't know where the stock market is going, but I will say this, that if it continues higher, this will do… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
The arts develop skills and habits of mind that are important for workers in the new economy of ideas. — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
The number one problem in today's generation and economy is the lack of financial literacy. — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
In an economy that already has lost some momentum, one must remain alert to the possibility that greater caution and weakening asset… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
The economy is turning, and credit comes in with a lag, .. To the extent that a number of small firms are… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
Most high-income people in our country do not realize that their incomes are being subsidized by their protection from competition from highly… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
While local economies may experience significant price imbalances, a national severe price distortion seems most unlikely in the United States, given its… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
We as central bankers need not be concerned if a collapsing financial asset bubble does not threaten to impair the real economy,… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
Given our inevitably incomplete knowledge about key structural aspects of our ever-changing economy and the sometimes asymmetric costs or benefits of particular… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
Every economy exists, no matter what the level of democracy, has elements of crony capitalism. It's - given human nature and given… — 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
The more flexible an economy, the greater its ability to self-correct in response to inevitable, often unanticipated, disturbances and thus to contain… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
Manufacturing capacity is not a rigid level against which one bounces. When you are dealing with a world economy, with a flexibility… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
Given our inevitably incomplete knowledge about key structural aspects of an everchanging economy and the sometimes asymmetric costs or benefits of particular… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
The guiding purpose of the government regulator is to prevent rather than to create something. — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
