589 Quotes by Alan Greenspan

Whether those adjustments are wrenching will depend ... on the degree of economic flexibility that we and our trading partners maintain, and I hope enhance, in the years ahead,

This decade is strewn with examples of bright people who thought they built a better mousetrap that could consistently extract abnormal returns from the financial markets. Some succeed for a time. But while there may occasionally be mis-configurations among market prices that allow abnormal returns, they do not persist.

is scheduled to discuss the flexibility of the U.S. economy and its resilience to shocks, a topic he addressed two weeks ago.

If you're going to move to private accounts, which I approve of, I think you have to do it in a cautious, gradual way.

Roger was the major policy maker during 9/11.

We're going to see some erosion in a number of macroeconomic variables

If you think you understand what I am saying you do not understand what I am saying.

In the face of energy price spike and the erosion of optimism in financial markets, consumer confidence, or sentiment, appears to be holding up reasonably well to date, though there have been some mixed signals of late.

is on an unsustainable path, in which large deficits result in rising interest rates and ever-growing interest payments that augment deficits in future years.