Economic system Quote by Danielle DiMartino Booth

“The financial markets had been subjected to overreaching intervention in one form or another since Greenspan assumed leadership of the Fed. Less intrusive Fed…

— Danielle DiMartino Booth

Mr. Greenspan did a very good job in the early 1990's. But recently he's fallen prey to this crazy theory that prosperity causes inflation.…

— Steve Forbes

Remember, Alan Greenspan was a member of Ayn Rand's collective. To understand this is to understand why we are doomed with the Federal Reserve

— Peter Fonda

For the last several decades, there was a prevailing belief among traditional economists that the markets were rational and self-correcting. Alan Greenspan advocated this…

— Kabir Sehgal

“What Greenspan was saying, in other words, was that there was absolutely nothing wrong with bidding up to $100 million in share value some…

— Matt Taibbi

“There’s no such thing as a free market. It’s all fixed one way or another.”

— E.M. Foner

“Why did so many smart people believe these laissez-fairey tales? It’s a good question. Some of the blame surely goes to the excessive faith…

— Alan S. Blinder

Let's face a historical truth: we have never had a "free market", we have always had government intervention in the economy, and indeed that…

— Howard Zinn

“Alan Greenspan, who would later become the Federal Reserve chairman, wrote in 1966: [T]he earnings saved by the productive members of the society lose…

— Andrew P. Napolitano

President Obama insists he's a free-market guy. But you have to wonder whether he understands how a free economy really works.

— Fred Barnes

“I worked for one of those who pushed back against the majority. He was the lone member of the FOMC who voted against the…

— Danielle DiMartino Booth

“It was May 2009, and I didn’t like where the economy was headed. (I wished the Federal Reserve had a GPS or a map…

— Jarod Kintz