Crisis was "accident waiting to happen": Greenspan
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An unusually high degree of risk taking across asset classes made recent financial market turmoil all but inevitable, former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said on Sunday.
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Alan Greenspan, the chairman of the Federal Reserve, said that America's trade deficit might be poised to stabilize and even fall because of market pressures.
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Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan  Greenspan said on Tuesday that China&#39;s current rate of growth  could not continue and added that a boom in global financial  market liquidity was near a turning point.
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Former Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan compares the current financial market turbulence to prior crises that have engulfed stock markets and the US economy.
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Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan warned Friday that the nation faces &quot;abrupt and painful&quot; choices if policy-makers don&#39;t act soon to head off looming insolvencies in Medicare and Social Security.
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Prompt action is needed to fund pensions for the ageing US population, the head of Federal Reserve has said. Alan Greenspan told a Fed-sponsored symposium that workers face the prospect of either higher taxes or a raised retirement age.
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Stock index futures fell on Friday ahead of monthly employment data seen as critical to the Federal Reserve's next policy decision, while former Fed chief Alan Greenspan signaled alarm about financial markets.
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Former Federal Reserve chief Alan Greenspan said on Monday there is an increased risk of a recession but cautioned that the Fed must still be on guard for a rise in inflation.
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Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan warns that prompt action is needed to fund pensions for the ageing US population.
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Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan on Friday urged Washington policymakers to consider reducing future Social Security and Medicare benefits, saying that
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Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said the current market turmoil is "identical" in many ways to that which occurred in 1987 and 1998, the Wall Street Journal reported in its online edition on Friday.
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Alan Greenspan chose the perfect moment to release his memoirs: the day before a high-stakes Federal Reserve policy meeting in the middle of a financial market crisis. Even the title of his book, The Age of Turbulence, looks uncannily - if not uncharacteristically - prescient.
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Former Federal Reserve chairman Alan  Greenspan was quoted as seeing a "one-third probability" of  recession in the United States this year, according to an  interview with Bloomberg.
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SAN FRANCISCO Aug. 27, 2004 - Democrat John Kerry&#39;s presidential campaign said Friday that Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan&#39;s warning of a looming crisis for Social Security and Medicare should be
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"Because we can't forecast crises or events like the stock market crash in 1987 or 9/11, we must be prepared and capable of absorbing shocks"  Former U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said on Friday that U.S. interest rates are low, but that rates are low all over the world. via Scotsman.com
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The probability of a recession in the  United States has increased but is still less than 50/50,  former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said in comments  broadcast on Friday.
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JACKSON HOLE, Wyo  - Rising pressure on U.S.  finances from an aging population make it vital quickly fix the  social safety net with such steps as raising the age for full  retirement benefits, Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan  said on Friday.