Alan greenspan

One of the problems with hedge funds is that they are changing so rapidly. If you have the balance sheet that closed business last night, by 11 A.M. this morning, that won't tell you very much about...

We're a democratic society. Shutting down the government should not be on the agenda.

Anything that we can do to raise personal savings is very much in the interest of this country.

In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store of value.

If somebody had said to me in June or July of 1987, 'We'd like you to become chairman of the Federal Reserve, but you're never allowed to discuss any economics after you leave,' I'd have said, 'Forget...

Look, I'm very much in favor of tax cuts, but not with borrowed money. And the problem that we've gotten into in recent years is spending programs with borrowed money, tax cuts with borrowed money,...

If I turn out to be particularly clear, you've probably misunderstood what I've said.

Any informed borrower is simply less vulnerable to fraud and abuse.

I don't know where the stock market is going, but I will say this, that if it continues higher, this will do more to stimulate the economy than anything we've been talking about today or anything...

I have found no greater satisfaction than achieving success through honest dealing and strict adherence to the view that, for you to gain, those you deal with should gain as well.