Should Quotes by Alan Greenspan

9 Should quotes by Alan Greenspan

Greenspan’s compact remarks on what ought to be provide a quick peek into the fiscal mindset of the former Federal Reserve chair.

Rate this collection: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ No ratings yet

Well, you probably will always believe there should be laws against fraud, and I don't think there is any need for a…

Alan Greenspan

Image

I guess I should warn you, if I turn out to be particularly clear, you've probably misunderstood what I've said.

Alan Greenspan

Image

We're a democratic society. Shutting down the government should not be on the agenda.

Alan Greenspan

Image

Cash is available and we should use that in larger amounts, as is necessary, to solve the problems of the stress of…

Alan Greenspan

Image

If all currencies are moving up or down together, the question is: relative to what? Gold is the canary in the coal…

Alan Greenspan

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

Image

Nor can private counterparties restrict supplies of gold, another commodity whose derivatives are often traded over-the-counter, where central banks stand ready to…

Alan Greenspan

Image

I believe that the general growth in large [financial] institutions have occurred in the context of an underlying structure of markets in…

Alan Greenspan

Image

I have found no greater satisfaction than achieving success through honest dealing and strict adherence to the view that, for you to…

Alan Greenspan

Image

Other authors on Should

More by Alan Greenspan

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Image

The guiding purpose of the government regulator is to prevent rather than to create something.

Alan Greenspan

Image

“government regulation cannot substitute for individual integrity.”

Alan Greenspan

Image

...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

Image

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

Image