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24 Feb 2009, 7:41 am
What Alan Greenspan, the former Federal Reserve chairman â€â [read post]
23 Feb 2009, 9:02 am
Krugman today: Alan Greenspan, the former Federal Reserve chairman — and a staunch defender of free markets — actually said was, “It may be necessary to temporarily nationalize some banks in order to facilitate a swift and orderly restructuring. [read post]
18 Feb 2009, 5:08 pm
But then there's Alan Greenspan and Lindsay Graham. [read post]
17 Feb 2009, 9:55 pm
The Financial Times reports that, concerned that the U.S. government is rewarding bad behavior and throwing good money after bad some conservative Republicans (and even noted Ayn Rand-admirer Alan Greenspan) are now open to the possibility of nationalization (or as FT spells it "nationalisation") of U.S. banks while Representative Michelle Bachmann (previously worried that Barack Obama and other members of Congress might secretly be anti-American) warns that… [read post]
16 Feb 2009, 2:01 am
Alan Greenspan, Hank Paulson and Chris Cox are also there. [read post]
10 Feb 2009, 11:07 am
Greenspan explains his own induced-social foolish action by saying his sister convinced him that the Madoff fund was a good opportunity. [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]
28 Jan 2009, 12:05 pm
Greenspan, who retired in February last year. [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]
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]
14 Jan 2009, 1:12 am
No wonder we're resorting to electric cars these days.And why did he pressure the universally admired Fed chairman Alan Greenspan to step down early in 2002? [read post]
8 Jan 2009, 8:44 am
Even Alan Greenspan is now shocked that he was so wrong for so long about his theories that ultimately replaced the initial premise of why a federal securities regulator was needed -- to compel corporations to tell the truth about their securities and to make brokers, dealers and stock exchanges put the interests of investors first.The SEC's noble purpose was probably doomed from the start. [read post]
7 Jan 2009, 12:18 am
The first culprit was Alan Greenspan and his serfs at the Federal Reserve. [read post]
6 Jan 2009, 9:16 am
This mechanism has been termed "irrational exuberance," a phrase often attributed to former Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan (no relation), but actually coined by another economist, Robert J. [read post]
22 Dec 2008, 8:39 pm
But he suggests that comments by "experts" like Alan Greenspan in his testimony before Congress, that he was "shocked" at market conditions, may drive us to reevaluate the importance of step one: perceiving the situation. [read post]
15 Dec 2008, 6:55 pm
Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan has served in many large corporate boards, including J.P. [read post]
30 Nov 2008, 8:09 pm
And she wasn't the only family member worried that the days ahead will bring a pink slip, not a promotion.And when a lunch of cold-cuts is offered, but the hosts don't eat any of nicely arranged turkey or cheese, claiming they're really not all that hungry, it doesn't take a team of economic advisers to know that people are hunkering down for worse things to come and want to make food stretch as far as possible.I'm sure such anecdotal evidence isn't the stuff that the… [read post]
25 Nov 2008, 9:00 am
Some time ago, Alan Greenspan mentioned the problems arising from lenders incorrectly pricing ABS when they retain no stake in the ABS after sale. [read post]
22 Nov 2008, 4:28 pm
Alan Greenspan, John Snow, and Christopher Cox testified. [read post]
18 Nov 2008, 1:15 pm
The existing crisis has caused any number of proponents of dergulation to recant, whether Henry Paulson or Alan Greenspan. [read post]
