Alan Greenspan Dim Quotations

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.

Firms still appear hesitant to spend and hire, and we need to remain mindful of the possibility that lingering business caution could be an impediment to improved economic performance,

But as we struggle to make sense of our profound loss and its immediate consequences for the economy, ... we must not lose sight of our longer-run prospects, which have not been significantly diminished by these terrible events.

There have been signs recently that some of the forces that have been restraining the economy over the past year are starting to diminish and that activity is beginning to firm,

could prove destabilizing to our financial system as a whole and in the end could seriously diminish the availability of home mortgage funds.

It seems persuasive that, given the size of the U.S. current account deficit, a diminished appetite for adding to dollar balances must occur at some point,