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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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 U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan told a Tokyo seminar on Thursday that he does not think economic slowdown in his country is "probable," toning down his earlier warning over a recession later this year.
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The Fed chief said today that the central bank âstands ready to take additional actions as neededâ to limit the effect of the financial market disorder on the economy.
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WASHINGTON - Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said Wednesday the economy has "regained some traction" after a late spring slowdown that was triggered by a sharp spike in oil prices.    Greenspan's moderately upbeat forecast was likely to cement expectations that the central bank will raise interest rates for a third time when Fed policy-makers meet in two weeks...
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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.
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Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan was quoted as saying on Thursday that a recession in the United States is possible, though not probable this year as inventory problems in the economy are being addressed quickly, Bloomberg reported.
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The odds of a recession in the United States are "clearly rising" due to the slowing rate of economic growth, former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said in an interview with National Public Radio.
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Alan Greenspan, former Fed chairman, said that the government should provide direct financial assistance to those threatened by foreclosure in the credit crisis.
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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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JACKSON, Wyo. - Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said Friday that the country will face "abrupt and painful" choices if Congress does not move quickly to trim the Social Security and Medicare benefits that have been promised to the baby boom generation...
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Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan on Thursday said the U.S. economy is "clearly on the edge" of a recession.
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JACKSON HOLE, Wyo.  - An aging U.S. population  will strain public finances and hurt the economy without swift  fixes to the social safety net, such as raising the age for  full retirement benefits, Federal Reserve Chairman Alan  Greenspan said Friday.
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Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan on Friday said he was "deeply concerned" Congress would try to thwart efforts by the Financial Accounting Standards Board to require expensing of stock options.
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A big overhang of property will bring  U.S. house prices down further, but it is too early to say if  the economy will plunge into recession, former Federal Reserve  chief Alan Greenspan was quoted as saying on Friday.
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The world will be living with volatile oil prices for years to come, but this year's price spike should not be serious enough to push the country into a recession, Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said Friday.
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Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said on Tuesday that China's current rate of growth could not continue and added that a boom in global financial market liquidity was near a turning point.