I love to play tennis and golf, listen to music, watch baseball and root for the Redskins.
ALAN GREENSPANAnyone willing to do what is required to become president of the United States is thereby barred from taking that office. I’m only half joking
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
-
-
And whatever their publicized angst over Saddam Hussein’s ‘weapons of mass destruction.
ALAN GREENSPAN -
Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the ‘hidden’ confiscation of wealth.
ALAN GREENSPAN -
The use of a growing array of derivatives and the related application of more-sophisticated approaches to measuring and managing risk are key factors underpinning the greater resilience of our largest financial institutions…
ALAN GREENSPAN -
And the percentage changes in wage rates would be the same for all job grades.
ALAN GREENSPAN -
Credit-default swaps, I think, have serious problems associated with them.
ALAN GREENSPAN -
Revolutions are something you see only in retrospect.
ALAN GREENSPAN -
Derivatives have permitted the unbundling of financial risks.
ALAN GREENSPAN -
Nor can private counterparties restrict supplies of gold, another commodity whose derivatives are often traded over-the-counter, where central banks stand ready to lease gold in increasing quantities should the price rise.
ALAN GREENSPAN -
The companies could hire the educated workers they need. And those workers would compete with high-income people, driving more income equality.
ALAN GREENSPAN -
It is regrettably the way human nature functions, whether we like it or not. What successful economies do is keep it to a minimum.
ALAN GREENSPAN -
What an ideology is is a conceptual framework with the way people deal with reality.
ALAN GREENSPAN -
Enhances a person’s ability to handle the more ambiguous and qualitative relationships that dominate our day-to-day financial decision-making
ALAN GREENSPAN -
Before I met Ayn Rand, I was a logical positivist, and accordingly,
ALAN GREENSPAN -
Greenspan, who knew so much more than most, knew far less than most supposed.
ALAN GREENSPAN -
It’s hard to overemphasize how important Ford’s deregulation was. True, most of the benefits took years to unfold-rail freight rates, for example hardly budged at first.
ALAN GREENSPAN