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 GREENSPANI was a fairly good amateur musician, and I was an average professional. But the one thing I saw was that the big band business was fading.
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
-
-
Those of us who have looked to the self-interest of lending institutions to protect shareholders’ equity are in a state of shocked disbelief.
ALAN GREENSPAN -
But rules cannot substitute for character.
ALAN GREENSPAN -
The economy is turning, and credit comes in with a lag, .. To the extent that a number of small firms are finding it difficult to get the credit they need at a price they can afford, that’s likely to change for the better.
ALAN GREENSPAN -
The number of mistakes I have made are just awesome. There is no number large enough to account for that.
ALAN GREENSPAN -
Any informed borrower is simply less vulnerable to fraud and abuse.
ALAN GREENSPAN -
The only effective regulation lies in the propensity of customers to choose alternatives, of investors to move their funds elsewhere and of labour to acquire technical skills’.
ALAN GREENSPAN -
Senator, we are groping for understanding, the knowledge you assume I possess doesn’t exist’.
ALAN GREENSPAN -
Senator, if I seem clear to you, you must have misunderstood me’.
ALAN GREENSPAN -
Some succeed for a time. But while there may occasionally be mis-configurations among market prices that allow abnormal returns, they do not persist.
ALAN GREENSPAN -
What an ideology is is a conceptual framework with the way people deal with reality.
ALAN GREENSPAN -
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 -
The number one problem in today’s generation and economy is the lack of financial literacy.
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 -
Capitalism is based on self-interest and self-esteem; it holds integrity and trustworthiness as cardinal virtues and makes them pay off in the marketplace, thus demanding that men survive by means of virtue, not vices.
ALAN GREENSPAN -
Regulators have not been able to achieve the level of future clarity required to act pre-emptively.
ALAN GREENSPAN -
We will have more crises and none of them will look like this because no two crises have anything in common except human nature.
ALAN GREENSPAN -
We may be in a rapidly evolving international financial system with all the bells and whistles of the so-called new economy. But the old-economy rules of prudence are as formidable as ever. We violate them at our own peril.
ALAN GREENSPAN -
You can’t have the capitalist system if an increasing number of people think it is unjust.
ALAN GREENSPAN -
The need for values is inbred. Their content is not.
ALAN GREENSPAN -
Skilled shortages in America exist because we are shielding our skilled labor force from world competition. [Visa quotas] have been substituted for the wage pricing mechanism.
ALAN GREENSPAN -
I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil.
ALAN GREENSPAN -
I was a fairly good amateur musician, and I was an average professional. But the one thing I saw was that the big band business was fading.
ALAN GREENSPAN -
And whatever their publicized angst over Saddam Hussein’s ‘weapons of mass destruction.
ALAN GREENSPAN -
The only sustainable way to increase demand for vacant houses is to spur the formation of new households. Admitting more skilled immigrants, who tend to earn enough to buy homes, would accomplish that while paying other dividends to the U.S. economy.
ALAN GREENSPAN -
We ought to be opening up our borders to skilled labour from all parts of the world because [the state of the world is as follows: ].
ALAN GREENSPAN -
But material success is possible in this world and far more satisfying when it comes without exploiting others.
ALAN GREENSPAN