589 Quotes by Alan Greenspan

Although the tendency in recent months toward stabilization in the East Asian economies is encouraging, clearly those economies are not out of the woods, as recent events attest,

A good part of this expansion is a direct function of the decline in real equity premiums. That cannot go on indefinitely.

The very nature of finance is that it cannot be profitable unless it is significantly leveraged... and as long as there is debt, there can be failure and contagion.

Although the global economic expansion appears to have been on a reasonably firm path through the summer months, the recent surge in energy prices will undoubtedly be a drag from now on.

With production running well below sales, the lift to income and spending from the inevitable cessation of inventory liquidation could be significant,

Without the triggers, that tax cut is irreponsible fiscal policy. Eventually, I think that will be the consensus view.

A gradual reduction over time of the GSE portfolios should be a non-event to investors and market participants, other than GSE shareholders,

I have gotten calls from a number of senior high-tech executives who are telling me that the market is dissolving rapidly before their eyes. But I suspect that a not inconceivable possibility is that what is dissolving in front of their eyes is their own personal net worth!

With price inflation already at a low level, substantial further disinflation would be an unwelcome development, especially to the extent it put pressure on profit margins and impeded the revival of business spending,