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2 Jan 2019, 5:12 am
”...Reid once called the Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan a “political hack,” Justice Clarence Thomas “an embarrassment” and President George W. [read post]
11 Aug 2009, 12:57 pm
Moss, When All Else Fails, about the long history of the government as a guarantor of last resort--including, inter alia, it's role in facilitating the limited liability company and the bankruptcy discharge.These days Alan Greenspan looks pretty much like a bum for having opened the money sluices duirng the flood of real estate financing. [read post]
16 Feb 2010, 9:07 am by admin
Bernanke’s predecessor, Alan Greenspan, whose once-sterling reputation has been diminished as his decisions to keep interest rates low after the 2001 recession have been brought into question. [read post]
9 Jan 2008, 4:15 am by Sean Hayes
Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke and his predecessor Alan Greenspan believe that asset bubbles can’t be adequately detected, thus, monetary policy should only focus on alleviating the pain felt when a bubble collapses. [read post]
12 Mar 2009, 12:17 am
Alan Greenspan has now famously admitted that he was in a state of "shocked disbelief" about the meltdown of the financial markets: "I made a mistake in presuming that the self-interests of organizations, specifically banks and others, were such that they were best capable of protecting their own shareholders and their equity in the firms. [read post]
3 Jun 2012, 6:20 pm by Richard Posner
  Over time, however, a reverse Nirvana Fallacy took hold of many economists, most famously Alan Greenspan. [read post]
24 Oct 2008, 11:40 am
Former Fed Reserve Alan Greenspan was grilled by angry Senators and Greenspan said he made a mistake for being too deregulatory. [read post]
29 Sep 2008, 1:50 am
But to the extent that one buys this counter-story, then the blame for keeping interest rates falls on the architect of the Fed policy, Alan Greenspan. [read post]
16 Sep 2013, 8:05 am by Kelly Phillips Erb
She attracted attention from a number of economists – including former Federal Reserve Chair Alan Greenspan – for her position that inflation isn’t necessarily a bad thing. [read post]
25 Mar 2009, 4:37 am
In an article titled Prophet and Loss, Rick Schmitt, accompanied by the photography of Erika Larsen, tells the story of Stanford Law School grad Brooksley Born, who was "named to head the Commodity Futures Trading Commisssion in 1996", and who at that time already warned then Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan of the coming disaster, and tried to implement regulations, only to be told that Greenspan did not believe in laws against fraud in the economic… [read post]
19 Sep 2008, 1:31 pm
The acclaimed geniuses -- like Alan Greenspan (who led the way) -- who lived in and loved celebrification, who profited from it, have been shown the fools that they are. [read post]
5 Oct 2010, 12:47 am by Garry J. Wise, Wise Law Office, Toronto
For one thing, it's probably cheaper to pay a lawyer a couple of thousand bucks to roll his hoop through the courts for a year than to actually fork over a $4,500 mortgage nut each month on an under-water five BR four bath vinyl-and-chipboard contemporary - with the possible bonus outcome of the house's title becoming so hopelessly lost and unproduceable that two generations of title insurance investigators will squander their whole working lifetimes in fruitless searching... and by then,… [read post]
22 Mar 2012, 7:42 am by Steven Berk
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]
15 Dec 2008, 6:55 pm
Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan has served in many large corporate boards, including J.P. [read post]
15 Aug 2011, 2:27 pm by Buce
 There is, of course, no entry for Alan Greenspan, Jamie Dimond, Robert Rubin. [read post]
30 Mar 2009, 12:43 am
Even former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan recently promoted the idea that "It may be necessary to temporarily nationalize some banks in order to facilitate a swift and orderly restructuring. [read post]
18 Aug 2010, 4:54 am by Kelly
Technorati Tags: tax, tax cuts, Bush tax cuts Similar Posts: The New Adventures of the Old Alan Greenspan A Tax Bomb! [read post]
26 Apr 2009, 7:46 am
The actual realities below the surface may actually look much different.The so-called "housing crisis", for example, is a case in point.As Man Friday, Peter Robinson reports at Forbes.com in The Housing Crisis Isn't A Crisis on George Mason law prof Todd Zywicki and his forthcoming book Bankruptcy Law and Policy in the Twenty-First Century (Yale University Press, 2009) in which he suggests that there are three distinct housing markets and only one of these is actually in distress, in… [read post]
19 Sep 2007, 9:49 am
"2001 Alan Greenspan discussing the perils America was facing because the national debt might be paid off:"But continuing to run surpluses beyond the point at which we reach zero or near-zero federal debt brings to center stage the critical longer-term fiscal policy issue of whether the federal government should accumulate large quantities of private (more technically nonfederal) assets. [read post]
17 Mar 2009, 5:00 am
  No less than the former head of the the Federal Reserve Board, Alan Greenspan, has all but confessed that the Delaware approach is entirely misguided. [read post]