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11 Sep 2012, 8:20 am
By now, most people are familiar with the story of Brooksley Born, who essentially predicted the financial crisis of 2008 while she was head of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC)—only to be rebuffed by Alan Greenspan, Robert Rubin and Larry Summers. [read post]
6 Sep 2012, 9:59 am
In fact, during his transition period (November 1992 - January 1993), Clinton broke his promise to expand government investment, instead caving in to pressure from Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan and Wall Street (in the direct form of his first Treasury Secretary, former Goldman Sachs CEO Robert Rubin) and becoming a deficit hawk. [read post]
19 Aug 2012, 6:37 pm
As Alan Greenspan said, “Whatever you tax, you get less of. [read post]
17 Aug 2012, 5:00 am
According to the WSJ, he was reported as saying: What we should probably do is go and split up investment banking from banking, have banks be deposit takers, have banks make commercial loans and real estate loans, have banks do something that’s not going to risk the taxpayer dollars, that’s not too big to fail The statement is not unlike the about face taken by Alan Greenspan during the financial crisis. [read post]
26 Jul 2012, 7:09 am
Okay, so then we have Glass-Steagall until the late 1990s and everything goes along pretty well for all those years… you know, except for things like a World War, segregation and Civil Rights, assignations of John-Bobby-Martin and Malcolm… Vietnam, Watergate, Drexel Burnham Lambert, Michael Milken, the S&L crisis, Executive Life, the crisis in Latin America, Iran Contra, the dot-com bubble, the Long-term Capital Management crisis, and probably a few others I can’t recall at the… [read post]
26 Jul 2012, 7:09 am
Okay, so then we have Glass-Steagall until the late 1990s and everything goes along pretty well for all those years… you know, except for things like a World War, segregation and Civil Rights, assignations of John-Bobby-Martin and Malcolm… Vietnam, Watergate, Drexel Burnham Lambert, Michael Milken, the S&L crisis, Executive Life, the crisis in Latin America, Iran Contra, the dot-com bubble, the Long-term Capital Management crisis, and probably a few others I can’t recall at… [read post]
22 Jul 2012, 1:11 pm
But the most interesting is the complacency about capitalism typified by the attitude of Alan Greenspan, the long-serving chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, and by other conservative economists. [read post]
3 Jun 2012, 6:20 pm
Over time, however, a reverse Nirvana Fallacy took hold of many economists, most famously Alan Greenspan. [read post]
10 May 2012, 4:41 am
At the risk of interjecting something political into this post, I will simply say I agree with former Fed Chief, Alan Greenspan who recently was quoted: Greenspan: Obama Should Have Embraced Simpson-Bowles and I am disappointed that none of the important legislation that must be done by the end of the year will be dealt with until after the election. [read post]
18 Apr 2012, 9:15 am
The result of all this was that housing prices that had started dropping during the summer of 2006 after Alan Greenspan raised interest rates 17 times in a row, now went into a credit crisis inspired free fall. [read post]
17 Apr 2012, 9:16 am
(Alan Greenspan maintaining that “hundreds of millions of people have been pulled out of poverty of extreme poverty and starvation, basically because we have competitive markets”). [read post]
25 Mar 2012, 1:04 am
During the fall of 2010, Lan T. [read post]
22 Mar 2012, 7:42 am
At the behest of then-Federal Reserve Board Chairman Alan Greenspan and then-Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson, the CFTC (and its Chair, Brooksley Born) was strong-armed into letting the derivatives market be free of regulation. [read post]
9 Mar 2012, 1:47 am
By Bob Hockett Neil's characteristically brilliant and trenchant posts over the past week on the American romance with home-ownership prompt me to say a bit more on the subject myself. [read post]
7 Mar 2012, 9:26 pm
Rather than accept the network as a feature of the world we should try to understand, they would assimilate it to the social processes that Friedrich Hayek mystifies** and Alan Greenspan calls “irredeemably opaque. [read post]
29 Feb 2012, 6:22 am
She was taken to the woodshed by Alan Greenspan and Hank Paulsen and forced to promise never to utter the word “derivative” again.) [read post]
11 Feb 2012, 8:29 am
But the public can still decide whether, to paraphrase Alan Greenspan, “too big to fail is too big to exist" in the world of charitable giving. [read post]
5 Feb 2012, 10:00 am
Ronald Reagan and Alan Greenspan increased the retirement age a generation ago in an attempt to save social security. [read post]
27 Jan 2012, 7:18 am
The phrase was used by American economist and former chairman of the Federal Reserve, Alan Greenspan, during the Dot-com bubble of the 1990s. [read post]
12 Jan 2012, 1:37 pm
Here is a funny one: JAN. 31: Alan Greenspan is chief... [read post]
