Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the 'hidden' confiscation of wealth. Gold stands in the way of this insidious process. It… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
Chinese productivity is the highest in the world but the way they do it is by borrowing the technology from abroad, either… — 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
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
Corruption, embezzlement, fraud, these are all characteristics which exist everywhere. It is regrettably the way human nature functions, whether we like it… — 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
The abandonment of the gold standard made it possible for the welfare statists to use the banking system as a means to… — 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
Putin probably, almost certainly, thinks that one of the great disasters of the 20th century was the demise of the Soviet Union.… — 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
I do not deny that many appear to have succeeded in a material way by cutting corners and by manipulating associates, both… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
It's hard to tell which assets will be toxic. The best way to ensure that only shareholders and banks feel it is… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
The only way to have several currencies from divergent nations lumped together is if they are culturally close, such as Germany, the… — 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
