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 GREENSPANIf 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 GREENSPANThe process of innovation is, of course, never ending.
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?
ALAN GREENSPANFear and euphoria are dominant forces, and fear is many multiples the size of euphoria. Bubbles go up very slowly as euphoria builds.
ALAN GREENSPANExcessive optimism sows the seeds of its own reversal.
ALAN GREENSPANThe abandonment of the gold standard made it possible for the welfare statists to use the banking system as a means to an unlimited expansion of credit.
ALAN GREENSPANThe free lunch has still to be invented.
ALAN GREENSPANDeficit spending is simply a scheme for the ‘hidden’ confiscation of wealth.
ALAN GREENSPANGreenspan, who knew so much more than most, knew far less than most supposed.
ALAN GREENSPANThe number one problem in today’s generation and economy is the lack of financial literacy.
ALAN GREENSPANThis is the reason that history has not dealt kindly with the aftermath of protracted periods of low risk premiums.
ALAN GREENSPANI love to play tennis and golf, listen to music, watch baseball and root for the Redskins.
ALAN GREENSPANSenator, if I seem clear to you, you must have misunderstood me’.
ALAN GREENSPANRegulation – which is based on force and fear – undermines the moral base of business dealings. It becomes cheaper to bribe a building inspector than to meet his standards of construction. Protection of the consumer by regulation is thus illusory.
ALAN GREENSPANWe can guarantee cash benefits as far out and at whatever size you like, but we cannot guarantee their purchasing power.
ALAN GREENSPANThey then need to reach a judgment about the probabilities, costs, and benefits of the various possible outcomes under alternative choices for policy.
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