Alan Greenspan Quotes - Page 6

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• The Iraq War is largely about oil.

  Alan Greenspan

  War, Oil, Iraq

  "The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World". Book by Alan Greenspan, 2007.

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• I'm a better economist than I was a sax player.

  Alan Greenspan

  Player, Economist

  Source: www.today.com

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• Now, I only play very occasionally, and in fact, more piano than clarinet or sax.

  Alan Greenspan

  Play, Piano, Facts

  Source: www.today.com

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• Whatever you tax you get less of.

  Alan Greenspan

  Economics, Economy, Taxes

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• The tub helps me relax, and it's a great place to read.

  Alan Greenspan

  Relax, Tubs, Helping

  Source: www.today.com

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• These days, even out of office, I still read economic reports.

  Alan Greenspan

  Office, Economic, These Days

  Source: www.today.com

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• I'm a plain soap kind of guy.

  Alan Greenspan

  Guy, Soap, Kind

  Source: www.today.com

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• I love facts and figures. It's like following a detective story, piecing together what's going on in the economy.

  Alan Greenspan

  Together, Stories, Detectives

  Source: www.today.com

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• The recent evidence increasingly suggests that an economic expansion is already well under way, although an array of influences unique to this business cycle seems likely to moderate its speed.

  Alan Greenspan

  Unique, Expansion, Way

  "Greenspan attacks Bush" by Heather Stewart, www.theguardian.com. March 7, 2002.

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• Without calling the overall national issue a bubble, it's pretty clear that it's an unsustainable underlying pattern.

  Alan Greenspan

  Issues, Calling, Patterns

  "Greenspan Is Concerned About 'Froth' in Housing". Speech at the Economic Club of New York, Hilton New York hotel in Midtown, www.nytimes.com. May 21, 2005.

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• American consumers might benefit if lenders provided greater mortgage product alternatives to the traditional fixed-rate mortgage.

  Alan Greenspan

  Alternatives, Benefits, Might

  "CNN Special Investigations Unit", transcripts.cnn.com. March 29, 2008.

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• Although the outlook is clouded by a number of uncertainties, the central tendencies of the projections .. imply continued good economic performance in the United States.

  Alan Greenspan

  Clouds, Numbers, United States

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• While local economies may experience significant price imbalances, a national severe price distortion seems most unlikely in the United States, given its size and diversity.

  Alan Greenspan

  Diversity, Imbalance, Size

  "The mortgage market and consumer debt". Remarks by Chairman Alan Greenspan At America’s Community Bankers Annual Convention, Washington, D.C., www.federalreserve.gov. October 19, 2004.

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• The guiding purpose of the government regulator is to prevent rather than to create something.

  Alan Greenspan

  Government, Purpose, Regulators

  Ayn Rand, Nathaniel Branden, Alan Greenspan, Robert Hessen (1986). “Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal”, p.111, Penguin

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• 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, ... This is the reason that history has not dealt kindly with the aftermath of protracted periods of low risk premiums.

  Alan Greenspan

  Risk, Aftermath, Debt

  "Greenspan Chides Investors". Speech at a Fed symposium, www.nytimes.com. August 27, 2005.

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• We cannot rule out a situation in which a preemptive policy tightening becomes necessary, ... Such caution seems especially warranted with regard to the sharp rise in equity prices during the past two years. These gains have obviously raised questions of sustainability.

  Alan Greenspan

  Past, Years, Two

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• Developing protectionism regarding trade and our reluctance to place fiscal policy on a more sustainable path are threatening what may well be our most valued policy asset: the increased flexibility of our economy, which has fostered our extraordinary resilience to shocks.

  Alan Greenspan

  Resilience, Fiscal Policy, May

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• In an economy that already has lost some momentum, one must remain alert to the possibility that greater caution and weakening asset values in financial markets could signal or precipitate an excessive softening in household and business spending.

  Alan Greenspan

  Momentum, Financial, Economy

  "Fed chief sparks US rally" by Jane Martinson, www.theguardian.com. December 5, 2000.

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