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5 Oct 2010, 12:47 am
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]
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]
17 Dec 2009, 1:19 am
Former Fed Chairman, Alan Greenspan, summed up this trend in a speech in 2004 (when his word was still gospel), saying: In recent decades, the fraction of total output of [the US] economy that is essentially conceptual rather than physical has been rising. [read post]
23 Sep 2008, 2:01 pm
Shelby rips Alan Greenspan. [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]
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]
15 Feb 2010, 7:22 am
In a Valentine’s Day reflection, the Christian Science Monitor recalls notable figures whom the Justices have married, including radio talk-show host Rush Limbaugh (Justice Thomas), NPR legal affairs correspondent Nina Totenberg (Justice Ginsburg), and former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan (Justice Ginsburg). [read post]
23 Jan 2010, 8:01 am
He defended the efficient-markets hypothesis, which underpinned the deregulation of the banking system championed by Alan Greenspan and others. [read post]
28 Jun 2010, 8:11 pm
Former Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan’s artificially low rates of 2002–2004 played a crucial role in inflating the housing bubble and distorting other investment decisions. [read post]
5 Feb 2009, 10:32 am
Apparently, because Alan Greenspan abandoned “the Chicago School theory” and now rejects it, and because of a financial crisis over which substantial debate still exists as to its causes, we are to believe that the substantial body of theory and evidence supporting Chicagoan views of predation, vertical restraints, exclusive dealing, tying, shelf space contracts, and other business practices is now irrelevant to modern antitrust enforcement (tell… [read post]
10 Oct 2008, 3:06 pm
Than there is the sainted Alan Greenspan, the greatest saint we've had since Saint Ron. [read post]
31 Oct 2008, 8:04 am
Earlier this month, the economist Alan Blinder wrote an article in the New York Times, "Got $700 Billion? [read post]
11 Oct 2022, 7:00 am
He was then appointed and confirmed to succeed Alan Greenspan as Fed Chair. [read post]
28 May 2009, 12:29 pm
Climatologists and financial modellers share more than we might think, or like. [read post]
21 Dec 2009, 1:30 am
" PHIL: The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World by Alan Greenspan. [read post]
24 Jan 2010, 5:29 pm
Alan Greenspan was right when he told Congress that the intellectual edifice collapsed. [read post]
9 Apr 2007, 6:15 am
This is Lieutenant Commander Scott, regulating your sorry selves Strengthening the regulator would be wise, as urged by many observers including former Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan in Greenspan's last testament; otherwise Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac can jack up their profits by Turbocharging the balance sheet, which inherently puts taxpayers at greater risk, as I posted in What now? [read post]
19 Jul 2010, 7:36 am
This would be a more sophisticated corollary to the story that goes: “the real culprit in the financial crisis was Alan Greenspan keeping interest rates too low for too long. [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]
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]
