Alan Greenspan Return Quotations

Ned says he is leaving the board to return to teaching, but I must point out that, in a sense, he never left teaching, ... He has been instructing us all along, and we at the board have been his willing students.

There are various competing explanations, ... the extraordinary surge in technological innovation has yielded a sharply higher return in investments.

The rates of return on investment in the same new technologies are correspondingly less in Europe and Japan because businesses there face higher costs of displacing workers than we do, ... Moreover, because our costs of dismissing workers are lower, the potential costs of hiring and the risks associated with expanding employment are less.

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

The fundamentals are in place for a return to sustained healthy growth,