Update
The Oxford Biblical Studies Online and Oxford Islamic Studies Online have retired. Content you previously purchased on Oxford Biblical Studies Online or Oxford Islamic Studies Online has now moved to Oxford Reference, Oxford Handbooks Online, Oxford Scholarship Online, or What Everyone Needs to Know®. For information on how to continue to view articles visit the subscriber services page.
Dismiss
Show Summary Details

Page of

PRINTED FROM OXFORD REFERENCE (www.oxfordreference.com). (c) Copyright Oxford University Press, 2023. All Rights Reserved. Under the terms of the licence agreement, an individual user may print out a PDF of a single entry from a reference work in OR for personal use (for details see Privacy Policy and Legal Notice).

date: 02 December 2023

Alan Greenspan 1926– 
American economist 

  1. Since I've become a central banker, I've learned to mumble with great incoherence. If I seem unduly clear to you, you must have misunderstood what I said.
    speaking to a Subcommittee of the US Congress, November–December 1987
  2. How do we know when irrational exuberance has unduly escalated asset values?
    speech in Washington, 5 December 1996
  3. An infectious greed seemed to grip much of our business community.
    of the late 1990s
    in New York Times 17 July 2002 (online edition)