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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]
24 Jan 2010, 5:29 pm by Gordon Smith
Alan Greenspan was right when he told Congress that the intellectual edifice collapsed. [read post]
22 Jul 2012, 1:11 pm by Richard Posner
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]
9 Aug 2016, 7:49 am by Stephen Griffin
  Some of those responsible who are long out of power have done something like this, like Alan Greenspan. [read post]
2 Jun 2009, 9:12 am by velvel
True, government functionaries like Robert Rubin, Lawrence Summers and Alan Greenspan participated in causing the disaster, but Rubin and Greenspan were in reality from business (and, in Greenspan’s case, from the insane nation of Ayn Randism) and Summers might as well have been from Wall Street given who he apparently buddied around with and who he later joined. [read post]
29 Jan 2014, 7:37 am by Karyl Argamasilla
Issue #1 – Income inequality:  Economists from Alan Greenspan to Paul Krugman see income inequality as an incipient threat to democratic society. [read post]
24 Aug 2011, 9:45 am by Natalie Hamill
Yet such efforts seem unlikely to move things any further; indeed, it may well be, as former US finance chief Alan Greenspan predicted earlier this week: the ‘euro is breaking down’. [read post]
6 Apr 2011, 3:39 pm by Frank Pasquale
[Alan] Greenspan believes the markets are “unredeemably opaque”. [read post]
30 Jun 2009, 5:50 am
Some interesting anecdotes about the Apollo fake filing: - It was a Form F-1, not a Form S-1 or SB-2 - The directors of the alleged company included President Bush, Alan Greenspan, Jimmy Carter, Fidel Castro and a cast of thousands [read post]
1 Sep 2021, 5:01 am by Fred Shapiro
Other recent individuals whose quotes have been introduced or supplemented in this edition include, among many others, Warren Buffett, Hillary Clinton, Pope Francis, Jonathan Franzen, Alan Greenspan, Steven Jobs, Cormac McCarthy, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Toni Morrison, Barack Obama, Sarah Palin, David Foster Wallace, and Warren Zevon. [read post]
18 Jun 2009, 12:01 am
Although Alan Greenspan completely missed the importance of financial regulation, he clearly understood that the mechanical inflation story is no guide for policy. [read post]
3 Feb 2011, 11:25 am by Lea Shaver
One of its earliest appearances is a 1967 Ayn Rand piece (Alan Greenspan is listed as an editor). [read post]
2 Aug 2009, 6:51 am
• Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said that the recession is nearing the end. [read post]
23 Mar 2008, 6:56 pm
  People like Alan Greenspan and Ben Bernanke. [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 Sep 2008, 5:14 am
  Big business got its chance to rule, and it blew it.Dave Hoffman at Co-Op posted about this last night, and has a quote from Alan Greenspan: ''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. [read post]
26 Sep 2008, 2:19 pm
In my lawyer life, I spent seven years at the Securities & Exchange Commission, most of them as an enforcement attorney (no, I didn't get a cool badge or anything).I'm no Alan Greenspan, though I've always been fond of the phrase "naked short selling. [read post]
4 Oct 2011, 10:02 am by Cathy Moran, Esq.
Alan Greenspan once said that, “History demonstrates that participants in financial markets are susceptible to waves of optimism. [read post]