Alan Greenspan

I must say, I never expected to see the day where I would be talking about anything other than reducing the debt,…

— Alan Greenspan

If prices go down, we will have problems - problems in the sense of spillover to other areas.

— Alan Greenspan

The Iraq War is largely about oil.

— Alan Greenspan

Putin probably, almost certainly, thinks that one of the great disasters of the 20th century was the demise of the Soviet Union.…

— Alan Greenspan

Forecasting our futures is built into our psyches because we will soon have to manage that future. We have no choice. No…

— Alan Greenspan

What an ideology is is a conceptual framework with the way people deal with reality. Everyone has one. You have to, to…

— Alan Greenspan

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

— Alan Greenspan

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

Even though some down payments are borrowed, it would take a large, and historically most unusual, fall in home prices to wipe…

— Alan Greenspan

It is very difficult to predict when a bond crisis could happen.

— Alan Greenspan

Significantly opening up immigration to skilled workers solves two problems. The companies could hire the educated workers they need. And those workers…

— Alan Greenspan

Rules cannot take the place of character.

— Alan Greenspan

Stripped of its academic jargon, the welfare state is nothing more than a mechanism by which governments confiscate the wealth of the…

— Alan Greenspan

The process of innovation is, of course, never ending.

— Alan Greenspan

I do not understand where the backing of Bitcoin is coming from. There is no fundamental issue of capabilities of repaying it…

— Alan Greenspan

It's a bubble. It has to have intrinsic value. You have to really stretch your imagination to infer what the intrinsic value…

— Alan Greenspan

I do not deny that many appear to have succeeded in a material way by cutting corners and by manipulating associates, both…

— Alan Greenspan

I love to play tennis and golf, listen to music, watch baseball and root for the Redskins.

— Alan Greenspan

Credit-default swaps, I think, have serious problems associated with them.

— Alan Greenspan

There's no other job in public life that is like chairman of the Fed.

— Alan Greenspan

If you get beyond the political rhetoric [and assembled a group to solve Social Security] it would take them 15 minutes. It…

— Alan Greenspan

The culture of Greece is not the same as the culture of Germany, and to fuse them into a single unit is…

— Alan Greenspan

This decade is strewn with examples of bright people who thought they built a better mousetrap that could consistently extract abnormal returns…

— Alan Greenspan

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

I made a mistake in presuming that the self-interests of organisations, specifically banks and others, were such that they were best capable…

— Alan Greenspan