Alan Greenspan Decade Quotations

Our analysis of economic developments almost surely will need to deal in greater detail with balance sheet considerations than was the case in the earlier decades of the postwar period,

An increase in inflation doggedly forecast to follow the ever lower unemployment rate--now the lowest in three decades -- has not occurred,

Before the crisis broke, there was little reason to question the three decades of phenomenally solid East Asian economic growth, largely financed through the banking system, so long as the rapidly expanding economies and bank credit kept the ratio of non-performing loans to total bank assets low,

We owe it to those who will retire over the next couple of decades to promise only what the government can deliver,

The growing stability of the world economy over the past decade may have encouraged investors to accept increasingly lower levels of compensation for risk.