Top 78 Quotes by Alan Greenspan

About Alan Greenspan

These are some quotes by American author Alan Greenspan Economist, who was born on March 6, 1926.

Increased jobs are the consequence of increased trade. Increasing jobs more than output implies a fall in productivity and standards of living. That surely cannot be our goal.

Increased jobs are the consequence of increased trade. Increasing jobs more than output implies a fall in productivity and standards of living. That surely cannot be our goal.

Alan Greenspan

It is very difficult to predict when a bond crisis could happen.

It is very difficult to predict when a bond crisis could happen.

Alan Greenspan

What I see in the corporate sector is very clearly an issue of a major shortfall in the issue of, what some people call confidence, but whatever you want to call it. Clearly people are looking out in the very distant future and they are saying that it is too complex.

Alan Greenspan

We need, in effect, to make the phantom 'lock-boxes' around the trust fund real.

We need, in effect, to make the phantom 'lock-boxes' around the trust fund real.

Alan Greenspan

Chinese productivity is the highest in the world but the way they do it is by borrowing the technology from abroad, either by joint ventures or other means.

Chinese productivity is the highest in the world but the way they do it is by borrowing the technology from abroad, either by joint ventures or other means.

Alan Greenspan

The problem is you cannot have free global trade with highly restrictive, regulated domestic markets.

The problem is you cannot have free global trade with highly restrictive, regulated domestic markets.

Alan Greenspan

The very nature of finance is that it cannot be profitable unless it is significantly leveraged... and as long as there is debt, there can be failure and contagion.

The very nature of finance is that it cannot be profitable unless it is significantly leveraged... and as long as there is debt, there can be failure and contagion.

Alan Greenspan

History has not dealt kindly with the aftermath of protracted periods of low risk premiums.

History has not dealt kindly with the aftermath of protracted periods of low risk premiums.

Alan Greenspan

Markets do very weird things because it reacts to how people behave, and sometimes people are a little screwy.

Markets do very weird things because it reacts to how people behave, and sometimes people are a little screwy.

Alan Greenspan

There are winners and there are losers. And as much as we would like to help the losers, if we do it in the way that directs the limited capital of the society to support the low-productivity parts of the economy, it means that the rest of the economy - our overall standard of living - will not rise as much as it could.

Alan Greenspan

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