589 Quotes by Alan Greenspan

There is a palpable unease that businesses and jobs are being drained from the United States, with potentially adverse long-run implications for unemployment and the standard of living of the average American,

If prices go down, we will have problems - problems in the sense of spillover to other areas, Greenspan said. While he hasn't seen such spreading yet, I expect to.

As the value of assets and liabilities have risen relative to income, we have been confronted with the potential for our economies to exhibit larger and perhaps more abrupt responses to changes in factors affecting the balance sheets of households and businesses,

A continuation of this trend would soon make the lack of refining capacity a binding constraint on growth in oil use, ... lagging.

we may be governors of the Federal Reserve but we are also citizens of this country.

It is very difficult to predict when a bond crisis could happen.

As I see it, heightened job insecurity ... explains a significant part of the restraint on (wages), and the consequent muted price inflation, ... Surveys of workers have highlighted this extraordinary state of affairs.

We cannot rule out a situation in which a preemptive policy tightening becomes necessary, ... Such caution seems especially warranted with regard to the sharp rise in equity prices during the past two years. These gains have obviously raised questions of sustainability.

the need to expand our nation's ability to import natural gas.