The problem is not lack of regulation but unrealistic expectations. What we confront in reality is uncertainty, some of it frighteningly so…
ALAN GREENSPANThe problem is not lack of regulation but unrealistic expectations. What we confront in reality is uncertainty, some of it frighteningly so…
ALAN GREENSPANIt signals problems with respect to currency markets. Central banks should pay attention to it.
ALAN GREENSPANWithout calling the overall national issue a bubble, it’s pretty clear that it’s an unsustainable underlying pattern.
ALAN GREENSPANIn an economy that already has lost some momentum, one must remain alert to the possibility that greater caution and weakening asset values in financial markets could signal or precipitate an excessive softening in household and business spending.
ALAN GREENSPANNeed to consider not only the most likely future path for the economy but also the distribution of possible outcomes about that path.
ALAN GREENSPANThen fear hits, and it comes down very sharply. When I started to look at that.
ALAN GREENSPANMany of those who purchased their residence more than a year ago have equity buffers in their homes adequate to withstand any price decline other than a very deep one.
ALAN GREENSPANI love facts and figures. It’s like following a detective story, piecing together what’s going on in the economy.
ALAN GREENSPANMarket financed withdrawals of home equity in recent years.
ALAN GREENSPANRecent episodes in which Fed officials hinted at a shift toward higher interest rates have unleashed significant volatility in markets.
ALAN GREENSPANIf we are dealing with psychology, then the thermometers one uses to measure it have an effect.
ALAN GREENSPANIndeed, better risk management may be the only truly necessary element of success in banking.
ALAN GREENSPANYet deregulation set the stage for an enormous wave of creative destruction in the 1980s.
ALAN GREENSPANWhat an ideology is is a conceptual framework with the way people deal with reality.
ALAN GREENSPANSo there is no reason to suspect that the actual process of boosting rates would be any different.
ALAN GREENSPANWhat we have found over the years in the marketplace is that derivatives have been an extraordinarily useful vehicle to transfer risk from those who shouldn’t be taking it to those who are willing to and are capable of doing so.
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