589 Quotes by Alan Greenspan

Although the business cycle has not disappeared, flexibility has made the economy more resilient to shocks and more stable overall during the past couple of decades,

The economic fundamentals remain firm, and the U.S. economy appears to retain important forward momentum,

What a sound money system does is to stabilize all the elements in it, and reduces the uncertainty that people confront. And the one thing all human beings do when they are confronted with uncertainty is pull back, withdraw, disengage, and that means economic activity, which is really dealing with people, just goes straight down.

Without the needed restrictions on the size of the GSE balance sheets, we put at risk our ability to preserve safe and sound financial markets in the United States, a key ingredient of support for housing,

If I say something which you understand fully in this regard, I probably made a mistake.

I am extraordinarily grateful to Alice Rivlin for her many contributions to the Federal Reserve.

The economy suffered significant shocks in late summer and early autumn,

we have seen how lax standards, excesses, or fraud can cause disproportionate losses to insurance funds.

Fear is a far more dominant force in human behaviour than euphoria - I would never have expected that or given it a moment's thought before, but it shows up in the data in so many ways.