Crony capitalism is essentially a condition in which... public officials are giving favours to people in the private sector in payment of… — 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
You can't have the capitalist system if an increasing number of people think it is unjust. — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
There is a huge number of people outside our borders who would love to come here. In fact, many of them come… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
Markets do very weird things because it reacts to how people behave, and sometimes people are a little screwy. — 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
People don't realize that we cannot forecast the future. What we can do is have probabilities of what causes what, but that's… — 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
What an ideology is is a conceptual framework with the way people deal with reality. Everyone has one. You have to, to… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
Significantly opening up immigration to skilled workers solves two problems. The companies could hire the educated workers they need. And those workers… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
This decade is strewn with examples of bright people who thought they built a better mousetrap that could consistently extract abnormal returns… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
What I see in the corporate sector is very clearly an issue of a major shortfall in the issue of, what some… — 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
