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7 Oct 2008, 8:49 pm
Alan Greenspan's Fed chose to stand aside as asset prices rose; it preferred to deal with bubbles after they popped by cutting interest rates rather than by preventing those bubbles from inflating. [read post]
25 Feb 2008, 8:34 pm
I'm almost to the point where I agree with Alan Greenspan's warning that if Congress believes that it simply must "do something," then it should spend money to directly assist people in need, but it should not mess with the structure of the market or of the products of the market, because Congress almost always screws that up with a host of unintended consequences. [read post]
22 Jun 2014, 9:30 pm by Joshua Mitts
What is striking is that despite Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan’s claim in June 2005 that housing speculation was “difficult,” the popularity of the term “flipping properties” was skyrocketing at the time, undergoing a ten-fold increase in the frequency of its occurrence in books published each year from 2002 to 2006. [read post]
12 Aug 2010, 5:26 pm by J.W. Verret
 Alan Greenspan, an ardent proponent of the gold standard in his early years, eventually abandoned his support for the idea. [read post]
2 Apr 2008, 7:47 pm
Ultimately, Ray kicked a corpse while he was down by blaming it all on Greenspan. [read post]
17 Oct 2010, 7:16 am by Frank Pasquale
His short essays on the TARP, the stock market, Alan Greenspan, and Ayn Rand could easily have descended into snark, despair, or jeremiad. [read post]
8 Oct 2018, 9:30 pm by Daniel Araya
During the dot-com bubble, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System Chairman Alan Greenspan famously observed that investors were the victims of “irrational exuberance. [read post]
15 May 2019, 9:01 pm by Tamar Frankel
” As former Federal Reserve chair Alan Greenspan explained to Congress, he believed in “order without law” in the financial system and found, together with the entire country, when this order does not work.1. [read post]
29 Apr 2011, 3:10 pm by Tomassi Law Associates
Then Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan was uncharacteristically coherent when he laid the foundation for the swindle earlier that year. [read post]
8 Apr 2009, 5:33 am
Alan Greenspan's pronouncements in favor of unregulated financial markets are well known. [read post]
9 Mar 2012, 1:47 am
By Bob Hockett Neil's characteristically brilliant and trenchant posts over the past week on the American romance with home-ownership prompt me to say a bit more on the subject myself. [read post]
5 Jan 2010, 7:44 am by admin
As revealing as a fingerprint: risk curves As I posted in quoting former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan: Fannie Mae (Fannie) and Freddie Mac (Freddie) essentially run two lines of business: 1. [read post]
2 Sep 2010, 7:53 am by admin
  Yet like his predecessor Alan Greenspan, he is given to being clear now and then. [read post]
2 Jun 2010, 4:22 am by Mandelman
“If they’re too big to fail, they’re too big,” says Alan Greenspan on October 15, 2009, who, after reading his book, I still like… so sue me. [read post]
7 Mar 2012, 9:26 pm by Frank Pasquale
Rather than accept the network as a feature of the world we should try to understand, they would assimilate it to the social processes that Friedrich Hayek mystifies** and Alan Greenspan calls “irredeemably opaque. [read post]
19 Jun 2011, 3:48 am by Mandelman
Then when it started to unravel… when Alan Greenspan raised rates 17 times in a row by the summer of 2006 in an effort to cool off an overheated housing market… at the same time something else was about to break… something else that was much harder to see than the houses that would soon start going into foreclosure: the bond market, and specifically the market for mortgage backed securities. [read post]
5 Apr 2011, 7:02 am by Daniel Shaviro
The financial sector is another such area, as even Alan Greenspan briefly recognized (before reverting to his ignorant-idealogue type). [read post]
23 Jul 2007, 4:37 pm
In an open letter to Dow Jones shareholders, MySpace founder Brad Greenspan outlines what he claims is a strategy that would push the company's stock price to the $100 level. [read post]