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6 Sep 2012, 9:59 am
In fact, during his transition period (November 1992 - January 1993), Clinton broke his promise to expand government investment, instead caving in to pressure from Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan and Wall Street (in the direct form of his first Treasury Secretary, former Goldman Sachs CEO Robert Rubin) and becoming a deficit hawk. [read post]
21 Aug 2009, 5:51 pm
Even then, they seem to have perceived her as more or less of a speed bump and couldn't understand why she didn't just flatten when they rolled over.In fairness, the real problem here doesn't seem to be Bernanke himself, who comes across in Wessel's account as one of the least ego-driven politicians alive: Wessel says that early in the crisis Bernanke "courted" (Wessel's word) Bair, "once going to her office and sitting next to her to a computer keyboard to… [read post]
12 Jun 2011, 3:10 pm
The housing bubble was enabled to expand to bursting point by unsound interest rate policies followed by the Federal Reserve in the early 2000s, under the chairmanship of Alan Greenspan. [read post]
15 May 2019, 9:01 pm
” 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]
16 Mar 2010, 8:15 am
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8 Apr 2009, 5:33 am
Alan Greenspan's pronouncements in favor of unregulated financial markets are well known. [read post]
29 Apr 2011, 3:10 pm
Then Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan was uncharacteristically coherent when he laid the foundation for the swindle earlier that year. [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
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
Yet like his predecessor Alan Greenspan, he is given to being clear now and then. [read post]
8 Aug 2013, 9:01 pm
For example, anyone likely to pick up this book will recognize political figures like Michele Bachmann, Joe Biden, John Boehner, Bill & Hillary Clinton, Tom Daschle, John & Elizabeth Edwards, Rahm Emanuel, Robert Gibbs, Alan Greenspan, David Gregory, Joe Lieberman, Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Mitt Romney, and Debbie Wasserman Schultz. [read post]
19 Jun 2011, 3:48 am
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]
16 Feb 2009, 2:01 am
Alan Greenspan, Hank Paulson and Chris Cox are also there. [read post]
11 Feb 2012, 8:29 am
But the public can still decide whether, to paraphrase Alan Greenspan, “too big to fail is too big to exist" in the world of charitable giving. [read post]
28 Sep 2008, 11:18 pm
Alan Greenspan tried to stop them. [read post]
2 Jun 2010, 4:22 am
“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]
5 Apr 2011, 7:02 am
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]
7 Mar 2012, 9:26 pm
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]
27 Oct 2008, 5:39 pm
The attempts at financial cure by one of disaster's architects, Paulson, have thus far proven to be further ineptitude born of poor thought and panic: the 700 billion dollar bailout is to date a failure that only rescues big business, banks still are not lending though they now are fabulously enriched by government money, huge companies that collapse (though for decades we were assured that in hugeness lies salvation) are being merged so that they will be yet bigger (and next time can take… [read post]
