...Fed chief Alan Greenspan is back on the warpath. A day after he raised eyebrows by insisting in the Financial Times that central bankers were powerless to prevent the housing bubble, Greenspan tells The Wall Street Journal that he is being unfairly singled...
...the American economy collapsed." Pretty good summary, isn't it? Only it was written not about today but about 1929--by Alan Greenspan. I simply changed the dates, made it the housing market instead of the stock market, and inserted Greenspan's name. For the...
...derivatives were âfinancial weapons of mass destruction, carrying dangers that, while now latent, are potentially lethal.â Alan Greenspan (from left) joined President Bush when Greenspan's successor, Ben Bernanke, was named Federal Reserve chairman in October...
...economic policy director, Jason Furman, tipping me off to this Bloomberg story about former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan. Seems that Greenspan agrees with Concordâs position on the need to pay for tax cuts (emphasis added): Sept. 12 (Bloomberg)...
...press is resounding with acclaim for the accession to Power of Alan Greenspan as chairman of the Fed; economists from right, left, and center weigh in with hosannas for Alan's greatness, acumen, and unparalleled insights into the "numbers." The only reservation...
...ones that just push a market further in one direction! i'm still trying to figure out where the puck is going to be... If Alan Greenspan really believed in free markets we wouldn't have gotten the Greenspan Put, the LTCM bailout, and all the mess that came...
...Reich discusses the lingering constraints that Alan Greenspan placed on our ability to address domestic problems that would help the middle and lower classes improve their standard of living: Greenspanâs worst legacy sprang from ...[this] source. Ayn Rand...
...room for improvement. EP should cover whatever Greenspan says. Like this (from Bloomberg): Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan called for tighter regulation of financial companies, distancing himself from the free-market culture that he helped to...
...Fed chief Alan Greenspan is back on the warpath. A day after he raised eyebrows by insisting in the Financial Times that central bankers were powerless to prevent the housing bubble, Greenspan tells The Wall Street Journal that he is being unfairly singled...
...managed to sneer, drool and look sanctimonious at the same time. "My question for you is simple," he asked a subdued Alan Greenspan, former head of the Federal Reserve. "Were you wrong?" Greenspan was interrogated by the House committee on October 24. He said...