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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]
22 Oct 2008, 6:01 pm
Although there are many banks that have enough capital to get them through this period of market turmoil  (a ‘credit tsunami’, according to Alan Greenspan), many of these financial institutions are not in a position to lend money at the levels that are necessary to support the Netherlands economy. [read post]
17 Jan 2009, 5:36 am
The current financial crisis was caused by a mix of market failures which were prompted by government failures:In reaction to the dot-com implosion and the collapse in business investment, Alan Greenspan rapidly cut interest rates to spur housing and consumer spending. [read post]
28 Jan 2009, 1:31 am
A movement quickly began to regulate derivatives like mortgage-backed securities through the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, but then-Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan, then-Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin and others blocked those efforts, which helped set the stage for the 2008 meltdown. [read post]
28 Sep 2007, 5:11 am
And speaking of mundane musings, Alan Greenspan's new biography The Age Of Turbulence is similarly possessed of small fed-speak tidbits wrapped around some astounding observations about past US policy and a wonderful chapter on the future economy. [read post]
28 Oct 2008, 9:49 pm
It continued when the testimony of Alan Greenspan, former Chairman of the Federal Reserve, before the same Congressional Committee defended years of regulatory inaction in the face of predatory lending. [read post]
8 Jul 2011, 11:00 am by Jennifer S. Taub
”  In that image, Alan Greenspan stood smiling assuredly front and center, flanked by a twinkle-eyed Robert Rubin and a seemingly annoyed Lawrence Summers. [read post]
17 Mar 2009, 3:56 pm
. * * * Alan Greenspan recently admitted that he had made a “mistake” in believing that banks, operating in their own self-interest, would never create such a poisonous economy that they would themselves collapse. [read post]
27 Nov 2012, 12:35 pm by Sandra Geddes
The case is argued by Edward Greenspan for the defence and Alan Lenczner for the prosecution and is presented before former B.C. [read post]
26 Sep 2011, 9:55 am by David Bernstein
Alan Greenspan’s job was to create a financial boom so America’s people were not concerned with the tactics used in the Middle East. [read post]
7 May 2010, 5:59 am by Erik Gerding
In arguing against a systemic risk regulator, Professor Lambert notes that even Alan Greenspan could not detect the housing bubble. [read post]
30 May 2014, 9:30 pm by Buce
Perhaps so; I remember Alan Greenspan just a while back defending himself against the charge that he overhyped the market by saying that he only worked with short-term rates and that long-term rates were an independent story. [read post]
15 Sep 2008, 4:56 am
Alan Greenspan said the following earlier today:"''I can't believe we could have a once-in-a-century type of financial crisis without a significant impact on the real economy globally, and I think that indeed is what is in the process of occurring.' The former Federal Reserve chairman also predicted that the financial crisis would see the failure of more major financial institutions, even as embattled Wall Street investment giant Lehman Brothers scrambled… [read post]
28 May 2008, 8:18 am
Alan Greenspan disastrously inflated the housing market, and anyone in a big urban area on the coast is caught up in the uncertainty of wondering whether an inflation-fearing Fed will shock prices back to normal or if "Helicopter Ben" Bernanke will keep the easy money flowing. [read post]
14 Feb 2010, 5:53 am
" During Alan Greenspan's term as chairman of the Federal Reserve we mostly watched as he and the Board decided whether to raise interest rates or not. [read post]
27 Oct 2008, 5:14 pm
  Former oracle Alan Greenspan just said that we have a "once in a century" credit crisis. [read post]
27 Jan 2010, 7:00 am by Jennifer S. Taub
Read Alan Greenspan’s testimony on this – he certainly had a turn-around after the 2008 meltdown. [read post]