589 Quotes by Alan Greenspan

The rapid growth and increasing importance of derivative instruments in the risk profile of many large banks has been a particular concern,

Given our inevitably incomplete knowledge about key structural aspects of an everchanging economy and the sometimes asymmetric costs or benefits of particular outcomes, a central bank needs to consider not only the most likely future path for the economy but also the distribution of possible outcomes about that path. The decision makers then need to reach judgment about the probabilities, costs and benefits of the various possible outcomes under alternative choices for policy.

Despite the combination of somewhat slower growth of productivity in recent quarters, higher energy prices, and a decline in the exchange rate for the dollar, core measures of consumer prices have registered only modest increases,

However, Seoul is clearly of developing in this ... and I expect Seoul gradually make this way to become international financial center.

Any informed borrower is simply less vulnerable to fraud and abuse.

It has been my experience that competency in mathematics, both in numerical manipulations and in understanding its conceptual foundations, enhances a person's ability to handle the more ambiguous and qualitative relationships that dominate our day-to-day financial decision-making

Six weeks after the beginning of the war, we have only limited readings on broader economic conditions, and that information has been mixed,

The demand for new computer applications will no doubt continue to spur demand for those with the creativity and the higher-level conceptual skills that will enable us to increasingly harness technology to produce greater economic value,

Whatever you tax you get less of.