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Chairman Greenspan is, of course, a master. -- Ben Bernanke
Alan Greenspan is unskilled; you don't take the unskilled seriously. -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Greenspan tells us what to do. Someone should take him out and hang him. -- Hutton Gibson
Remember, Alan Greenspan was a member of Ayn Rand's collective. To understand this is to understand why we are doomed with the Federal Reserve. -- Peter Fonda
The Fed needs an approach that consolidates the gains of the Greenspan years and ensures that those successful policies will continue - even if future Fed chairmen are less skillful or less committed to price stability than Mr. Greenspan has been. -- Ben Bernanke
Greenspan's policies have created huge amounts of wealth for Arizona. -- Ernst Happel
I think the move by Mr. Greenspan was welcomed by everyone here. -- Jack Welch
You wouldn't want Alan Greenspan to write the instructions for assembling a beach chair. -- Robert Orben
I agree with what the Chairman Greenspan said whatever it is that he did say. -- Robert Rubin
No man bears more responsibility for the present worldwide financial crisis and coming depression than Alan Greenspan. -- Bill Bonner
The issue of economics is not something I've understood as well as I should. I've got Greenspan's book. -- John McCain
[On reporters trying to cajole a smile from her husband, Alan Greenspan:] For a Federal Reserve chairman, that was a smile. -- Andrea Mitchell
Damn inflation, full speed ahead,' Greenspan has said in both action and word. I think an investor should believe him and invest accordingly. -- Bill Gross
Remember, Alan Greenspan was a member of Ayn Rand's collective. To understand this is to understand why we are doomed with the Federal Reserve -- Peter Fonda
But the trouble is that he [Alan Greenspan] had been an Ayn Rander. You can take the boy out of the cult but you can't take the cult out of the boy. -- Paul Samuelson
Greenspan's eventual explanation for the growing gap between stock prices and actual productivity was that, fortuitously, the laws of nature had changed -- humanity had reached a happy stage of history where bullshit could be used as rocket fuel. -- Matt Taibbi
And by the way, I would not only reappoint Greenspan; if Greenspan would happen to die, God forbid, I would do like they did in the movie 'Weekend at Bernie's.' I would prop him up and put a pair of dark glasses on him. -- John McCain
If you want a simple model for predicting the unemployment rate in the United States over the next few years, here it is: It will be what Greenspan wants it to be, plus or minus a random error reflecting the fact that he is not quite God. -- Paul Krugman
[Ben Carson] critics say that your inexperience shows. You've suggested that the Baltic States are not a part of NATO, you were unfamiliar with the major political parties and government in Israel, and domestically, you thought Alan Greenspan had been treasury secretary instead of federal reserve chair. -- Megyn Kelly
Greenspan, who knew so much more than most, knew far less than most supposed ... -- Alan Greenspan
If prices go down, we will have problems - problems in the sense of spillover to other areas, Greenspan said. While he hasn't seen such spreading yet, I expect to. -- Alan Greenspan

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