589 Quotes by Alan Greenspan

In these circumstances, monetary policy is able to be more patient,

I think people are going to be quite surprised at their heating bills this winter,

The system was holding up ... the American economy kept getting battered and battered and battered and it was still standing and indeed, as of Sept. 10, it was still standing,

By far the most significant event in finance during the past decade has been the extraordinary development and expansion of financial derivatives.

The gut-feel of the 55-year old trader is more important than the mathematical elegance of the 25-year old genius.

I realize what that does to competitiveness, but that's the way markets work efficiently. In other words, to prevent the exchange rates from moving creates all sorts of distortions.

I thought it was an exceptionally good study,

The number one problem in today's generation and economy is the lack of financial literacy.

Somewhat to my surprise, this came out as a far more robust relationship, indicating the greater the deficit, the greater the long-run interest rate,