Alan Greenspan Quotes on Time (10 Quotes)

Throughout all this history, the CEA has, in most cases, provided the president with the best economic advice available at the time and has, crucially, been a consistent advocate for the importance of market forces,

The trend of existing home sales has been relatively flat at a reasonable high level for quite a long period of time, and if we can maintain that we are doing well,

But it is clear that, for the time being at least, the increase in spending on consumer goods and houses has come down several notches, albeit from very high levels.

But, given our current state of knowledge, I find it difficult to envision central banks successfully targeting asset prices any time soon,

Doubtless, the substantial improvement in the access of business decision makers to real-time information has played a key role, ... Today, businesses have large quantities of data available virtually in real time. As a consequence, they address and resolve economic imbalances far more rapidly than in the past.

I suspect that with the underlying database publicly available, it is just a matter of time before the ex-post results of analysts recommendations are compiled and published on a regular basis, ... I venture to say that with such transparency, the current upward bias of analysts' earnings projections would diminish rather rapidly.

Although I doubt that the U.S. dollar will lose its status as the world's reserve currency any time soon, there are in my judgment lessons to be learned from the experience of (Britain's currency) as it faded as the world's dominant currency,

The shock of September 11, by markedly raising the degree of uncertainty about the future, has the potential to result, for a time, in pronounced disengagement from future commitments,

While the adjustments may be difficult for a time, these crises will pass. Stronger individual economies and a more robust and efficient international economic and financial system will surely emerge in their wake,

Still-significant productivity growth and a sizable margin of underutilized resources, to date, have checked any sustained acceleration of the general price level and should continue to do so for a time,