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7 Jul 2011, 5:23 am
This possibility was openly discussed by economists and financial planners at the time, and the need for a deep market in Treasuries was one of the factors that former Fed chair Alan Greenspan invoked when he endorsed the 2001 Bush tax cuts. [read post]
30 Jun 2011, 2:44 pm
Big Business has had its enablers in place for four decades--Grover Norquist, the Koch brothers and their 'tea party' followers, the various propaganda tanks like the American Enterprise Institute, the Cato Institute, the Heritage Foundation, and the rest that have spent millions to brainwash Americans into thinking that the failed 'free market' ideas of Milt Friedman and Alan Greenspan and Wall Street are the only way to go. [read post]
23 Jun 2011, 9:48 am
The laissez-faire deregulated approach to business that led us to financial catastrophe, and which Alan Greenspan has admitted was the wrong course, remains the centerpiece of the Republican Party. [read post]
19 Jun 2011, 3:48 am
Then when it started to unravel… when Alan Greenspan raised rates 17 times in a row by the summer of 2006 in an effort to cool off an overheated housing market… at the same time something else was about to break… something else that was much harder to see than the houses that would soon start going into foreclosure: the bond market, and specifically the market for mortgage backed securities. [read post]
12 Jun 2011, 3:10 pm
The housing bubble was enabled to expand to bursting point by unsound interest rate policies followed by the Federal Reserve in the early 2000s, under the chairmanship of Alan Greenspan. [read post]
7 Jun 2011, 9:56 am
The economic news is bleak. [read post]
7 Jun 2011, 9:55 am
The economic news is bleak. [read post]
30 May 2011, 1:30 pm
In 1994, the Treasury, with the vocal support of the then-unblemished Oracle himself, Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan, urged Congress to consolidate banking authority into a Federal Banking Commission (see here for the full story, especially 73-77). [read post]
27 May 2011, 10:00 am
”- Alan Greenspan [read post]
23 May 2011, 4:02 pm
The former French chief of the IMF, Dominique Strauss Kahn, who is alleged to have sexually assaulted a hotel worker from Guinea, provides the perfect metaphor for the IMF's treatment of the Third World. [read post]
2 May 2011, 10:54 am
In my last post, I praised Hernando de Soto's proposal to improve business recordkeeping, or "economic facts. [read post]
2 May 2011, 10:50 am
In my last post, I praised Hernando de Soto’s proposal to improve business recordkeeping, or “economic facts. [read post]
2 May 2011, 8:21 am
” Most of what we hear about administrative agencies and government regulation of industry falls onto one side or another of a debate represented reasonably well by the following articles: “Regulation Lax as Gas Wells’ Tainted Water Hits Rivers” courtesy of the New York Times, and a piece by Alan Greenspan called “Activism” in which the former Fed Chairman blames our slow climb out of recession on too much government regulation. [read post]
29 Apr 2011, 3:10 pm
Then Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan was uncharacteristically coherent when he laid the foundation for the swindle earlier that year. [read post]
27 Apr 2011, 6:00 pm
Here's a wrap-up of all the posts for the club: Lynn Stout on "The Myth of the Rational Market" Benjamin Means: Shocking Alan Greenspan Matt Bodie: A Cast of Thousands David Zaring: Should You Be Assigning The Myth of the Rational Market to Your Class? [read post]
25 Apr 2011, 6:09 am
Fox begins with a vignette that highlights his thesis: former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan’s remarkable admission that he was wrong to believe that markets are reliably self-correcting. [read post]
20 Apr 2011, 12:50 am
Robert Reich's book, After Shock: The Next Economy and America's Future (Alfred A. [read post]
10 Apr 2011, 1:57 pm
I've been reading Johnson & Kwak's Thirteen Bankers, and just saw a quote from Alan Greenspan that epitomizes a lot.The Fed had been reviewing whether subprime mortgage lending should be more highly regulated. [read post]
6 Apr 2011, 3:39 pm
[Alan] Greenspan believes the markets are “unredeemably opaque”. [read post]
6 Apr 2011, 3:39 pm
[Alan] Greenspan believes the markets are “unredeemably opaque”. [read post]
