589 Quotes by Alan Greenspan

We've come a long way through this adjustment process and we're still standing and that's good news, ... is still not doing well but (is) far better given what has happened than I would have forecast six, eight, nine months ago.

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 rules of prudence are as formidable as ever. We violate them at our own peril.

the weight of incoming evidence persuasively suggest on oncoming intensification of inflation pressures.

only the peripheral winds of the Asian crisis.

The growing stability of the world economy over the past decade may have encouraged investors to accept increasingly lower levels of compensation for risk.

Protectionism will do little to create jobs and if foreigners retaliate, we will surely lose jobs.

We are seeing the first signs of erosion at the edges, especially in manufacturing. That's a signal that the effects of East Asia and Russia on our financial system are increasingly a factor.

Institutions of the newer participants in global finance had not been tested, until recently...recent crisis have underscored certain financial structure vulnerabilities that are not readily assuaged in the short run.

This diminishing of opportunities for such workers is why retraining for new job skills that meet the evolving opportunities created by our economies has become so urgent a priority,