Alan Greenspan Issue Quotations

I think the whole issue of a debt ceiling makes no sense to me whatsoever. Anybody who is remotely adroit at arithmetic doesn't need a debt ceiling to tell you where you are.

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.

I do not understand where the backing of Bitcoin is coming from. There is no fundamental issue of capabilities of repaying it in anything which is universally acceptable, which is either intrinsic value of the currency or the credit or trust of the individual who is issuing the money, whether it's a government or an individual.

Terrorism poses a challenge to the remarkable record of globalization, ... I trust that we will go forward expeditiously with the pending new trade round. The differences to be resolved in such talks are small relative to the larger issue of maintaining our freedoms to travel and trade on a global scale.

Threats of deflation, which were a significant concern last year, by all indications are no longer an issue before us, ... That clearly is a change that's occurred in the last number of weeks, and it's a change ... that's been long overdue and is most welcome.

The critical issue should be how to strengthen the legal base of free market capitalism: the property rights of shareholders and other owners of capital, ... Fraud and deception are thefts of property.

We should not be cutting taxes by borrowing, ... We should be cutting taxes by reducing the level of spending and that's an issue that I think is critically on the table.

To develop a financial center ... the issue isn't interest of developing infrastructure.

The Fed is struggling to find a firmer standard of monetary policy, ... The focus on asset prices has become an increasing issue of debate at the Fed.

I haven't stipulated increased rates of return are a significant issue in this debate.

The effects of the present merger wave are yet to be determined, ... But, unless a relationship between bigness and market concentration can be more firmly rooted in anti-competitive behavior, bigness, per se, does not appear to be an issue for national economic policy.