Alan Greenspan Major Quotations

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.

One of the major problems with China is that its innovation is largely borrowed technology.

We don't endeavor to manipulate the bond market to act as a proxy, ... The major reason is we wouldn't know how.

The U.S. economy appears to have withstood a set of blows -- major declines in equity markets, a sharp retrenchment in investment spending, and the tragic terrorist attacks of last September -- that in previous business cycles almost surely would have induced a severe contraction,

Derivative instruments were bystanders, ... They may well have intensified the losses in underlying markets, but they were scarcely the major players.

The major attraction of personal or private accounts is that they can be constructed to be truly segregated from the unified budget,

The major element of the control of leverage and capital is the structure of the counterparty relationship,

Roger was the major policy maker during 9/11.

through education and training, not by restraining the competitive forces that are so essential to overall rising standards of living of the great majority of our population.

Through most of last year's slowdown, in contrast to the usual pattern, the household sector was a major stabilizing force, ... As a consequence, although household spending should continue to trend up, the potential for significant acceleration in activity in this sector is more limited.