Was sort of intellectually shocked. Contagion is the critical phenomenon which causes the thing to fall apart.
ALAN GREENSPANBut 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?
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
-
-
I believe that the general growth in large [financial] institutions have occurred in the context of an underlying structure of markets in which many of the larger risks are dramatically — I should say, fully — hedged.
ALAN GREENSPAN -
If one grasps this, one has no difficulty in understanding the statists’ antagonism toward the gold standard.
ALAN GREENSPAN -
If we were to do that we would increase the supply of skilled workers that our schools have been unable to create and as a consequence of that we would lower the average wage of skills and reduce the degree of income inequality in this country.
ALAN GREENSPAN -
If I’ve made myself clear, I’ve misspoken.
ALAN GREENSPAN -
There’s an interesting question here because if the gold price broke in that context, the thermometer would not be just a measuring tool. It would basically affect the underlying psychology.
ALAN GREENSPAN -
We need, in effect, to make the phantom ‘lock-boxes’ around the trust fund real.
ALAN GREENSPAN -
They then need to reach a judgment about the probabilities, costs, and benefits of the various possible outcomes under alternative choices for policy.
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 -
Protectionism will do little to create jobs and if foreigners retaliate, we will surely lose jobs.
ALAN GREENSPAN -
Gold stands in the way of this insidious process. It stands as a protector of property rights.
ALAN GREENSPAN -
It signals problems with respect to currency markets. Central banks should pay attention to it.
ALAN GREENSPAN -
The recent period has been marked by a transformation to an economy that is more productive as competitive forces become increasingly intense and new technologies raise the efficiency of our businesses…
ALAN GREENSPAN -
Regulators have not been able to achieve the level of future clarity required to act pre-emptively.
ALAN GREENSPAN -
There is no evidence that the business cycle has been repealed.
ALAN GREENSPAN -
You can’t have the capitalist system if an increasing number of people think it is unjust.
ALAN GREENSPAN






