Back in March, the former Fed chairman said that we’re in trouble because “productivity is dead in the water, and real capital investment is way below average because business people are very uncertain about the future.” Greenspan went on to add that entitlement programs are crowding out capital investment, and thus crowding out productivity.”
Alan Greenspan is back delivering more warnings about the state of the global economy, hammering home the same key points made back in March.
“We have a global problem of a shortage in productivity growth and it’s not only the United States but it’s pretty much around the world, and it’s being caused by the fact that populations everywhere in the Western world are aging, and we’re not committing enough of our resources to fund that. We should be running federal surpluses right now not deficits. This is something we could have anticipated twenty five years ago and in fact we did, but nobody’s done anything about it. This is the crisis which has come upon us.”
This post was published at Zero Hedge on 05/31/2016.
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