589 Quotes by Alan Greenspan

I wasn't able to do much reading when I was chairman of the Reserve Board. The workload was too large, and the luxury of reading was not available to me. So I caught up a good deal when I left office.

All taxes are a drag on economic growth. It's only a question of degree.

It is much too soon to conclude that these concerns are behind us,

Fixed mortgage rates remain at historically low levels and thus should continue to fuel reasonably strong housing demand and, through equity extraction, to support consumer spending as well,

in modest quantities does enhance the rate of growth of the economy and does create higher standards of living, but in excess, creates very serious problems.

Manufacturing capacity is not a rigid level against which one bounces. When you are dealing with a world economy, with a flexibility to employ production facilities other than one's own, then the concept of capacity is vaguer.

Faster economic growth, doubtless, would make deficits far easier to contain. But faster economic growth alone is not likely to be the full solution to currently projected long-term deficits.

It is becoming increasingly difficult to deny that something profoundly different than the postwar business cycle has emerged in recent years,

I know this institution will go on doing extraordinary things, and I will look on from the sidelines and cheer.