We can guarantee cash benefits as far out and at whatever size you like, but we cannot guarantee their purchasing power.
ALAN GREENSPANClearly, sustained low inflation implies less uncertainty about the future, and lower risk premiums imply higher prices of stocks and other earning assets.
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
-
-
Recent episodes in which Fed officials hinted at a shift toward higher interest rates have unleashed significant volatility in markets.
ALAN GREENSPAN -
I was raising the question on the side with Governor Mullins of what would happen if the Treasury sold a little gold in this market.
ALAN GREENSPAN -
And she always has so much fun doing it. We make a good team.
ALAN GREENSPAN -
Credit-default swaps, I think, have serious problems associated with them.
ALAN GREENSPAN -
American consumers might benefit if lenders provided greater mortgage product alternatives to the traditional fixed-rate mortgage.
ALAN GREENSPAN -
If you think you understand what I am saying you do not understand what I am saying.
ALAN GREENSPAN -
I made a mistake in presuming that the self-interests of organisations, specifically banks and others, were such that they were best capable of protecting their own shareholders and their equity in the firms.
ALAN GREENSPAN -
We can see that in the inverse relationship exhibited by price/earnings ratios and the rate of inflation in the past.
ALAN GREENSPAN -
Any onset of increased investor caution elevates risk premiums and, as a consequence, lowers asset values and promotes the liquidation of the debt that supported higher asset prices.
ALAN GREENSPAN -
If you get beyond the political rhetoric [and assembled a group to solve Social Security] it would take them 15 minutes. It would take them 15 minutes only because 10 minutes was used for pleasantries.
ALAN GREENSPAN -
But how do we know when irrational exuberance has unduly escalated asset values, which then become subject to unexpected and prolonged contractions as they have in Japan over the past decade?
ALAN GREENSPAN -
If I seem unduly clear to you, you must have misunderstood what I said.
ALAN GREENSPAN -
But rules cannot substitute for character.
ALAN GREENSPAN -
Productivity is notoriously difficult to predict.
ALAN GREENSPAN -
It has been my experience that competency in mathematics, both in numerical manipulations and in understanding its conceptual foundations.
ALAN GREENSPAN