589 Quotes by Alan Greenspan

We have obviously specified implicitly that we prefer to act within our scheduled meetings, ... But we have also shown over the years that when we perceive that actions are required between meetings we have never hesitated to move.

will undoubtedly be a drag from now on.

We don't endeavor to manipulate the bond market to act as a proxy, ... The major reason is we wouldn't know how.

While actual CPI inflation has picked up this year, this rise has not been mirrored uniformly in other broad price measures,

The Bureau of Labor Statistics estimated that bar code scanners at checkout counters increased the speed that cashiers could ring up payments by 30 percent and reduced labor requirements of cashiers and baggers by 10 to 15 percent.

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

Regulators have not been able to achieve the level of future clarity required to act pre-emptively. The problem is not lack of regulation but unrealistic expectations. What we confront in reality is uncertainty, some of it frighteningly so...

If we are to remain preeminent in transforming knowledge into economic value, America’s system of higher education must remain the world’s leader in generating scientific and technological breakthrough, and in meeting the challenge to educate workers.

I know you think you understand what you thought I said but I’m not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.