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ALAN GREENSPAN

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I found a flaw in the model that I perceived is the critical functioning structure that defines how the world works.

economicshumilityUS Congressional Testimony, October 2008, 2008

The markets have the capacity to do things that regulators cannot anticipate. Sometimes that is a feature. Sometimes it is a catastrophic bug.

marketsregulationThe Age of Turbulence, 2007, 2007

Bubbles are only identified in retrospect. While you are in one, it looks like growth.

bubblesmarketsInterview with Charlie Rose, 2013, 2013

If I seem unduly clear to you, you must have misunderstood what I said.

communicationhumorFrequently quoted throughout his Fed tenure, attributed to multiple occasions, 1995

The history of economic progress is a history of creative destruction. The question is always: who bears the cost of the disruption?

disruptioneconomicsAmerican Enterprise Institute lecture, 2010, 2010