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6 Apr 2010, 2:00 pm by LindaMBeale
  Remember Greenspan--when Clinton was president, Greenspan scolded about deficit reduction; then when Bush proposed huge deficit-creating tax cuts, Greenspan suddenly found himself not worried about deficits. [read post]
22 Apr 2010, 11:45 am by Mandelman
For example, some like to blame Alan Greenspan for keeping interest rates too low for too long, but this argument is kind of nutty, in my view, because while it may or may be true that interest rates helped fuel the real estate bubble from a demand perspective, low rates certainly didn’t cause the crisis. [read post]
7 Oct 2008, 8:49 pm
With the real estate bubble, it has proved disastrous.So the first cause of the crisis lies with the Fed, not with deregulation. [read post]
15 Feb 2010, 9:15 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Former Fed Chair Alan Greenspan famously recanted from the laissez-faire worldview that animated and drove his entire career. [read post]
10 Oct 2010, 8:11 am by Mandelman
(NOTE TO THE READER: If that last sentence made any sense at all to you, please go back and re-read it.) [read post]
27 Sep 2009, 11:09 pm
But I've come to think that at least some of the discussion we're hearing these days rests on a misconception or two, and that it would be helpful to highlight them even for those who are skeptical of market efficiency or trader rationality. [read post]
17 Dec 2010, 8:46 am by Mandelman
You see, up until that July 10th, all that was happening was that our housing bubble had started to deflate, largely due to the efforts of the Greenspan’s and then Bernanke’s Federal Reserve. [read post]
21 Feb 2010, 4:37 pm
  Many DoL readers will recall that, at the end of last month, President Obama announced his support for three new finance-regulatory measures recommended by Republican Paul Volcker, the former Federal Reserve Chairman now widely viewed, in the wake of Chairman Greenspan's diminished standing, as the last successful occupant of that hallowed office. [read post]
7 Jun 2011, 9:56 am by Frank Pasquale
At the beginning of the financial crisis, economists worried that the United States would end up like Japan after its real estate bubble burst in the late 1980s. [read post]
7 Jun 2011, 9:55 am by Frank Pasquale
At the beginning of the financial crisis, economists worried that the United States would end up like Japan after its real estate bubble burst in the late 1980s. [read post]
14 Nov 2011, 9:06 am by Mandelman
Even Alan Greenspan, who some no doubt consider the father of our rich-poor income gap, and who is certainly no bleeding heart liberal, has said, “The income gap between the rich and the rest of the US population has become so wide, and is growing so fast, that it might eventually threaten the stability of democratic capitalism itself. [read post]
15 Oct 2011, 4:43 am by Mandelman
That’s because 1950 is the year that our country started keeping such data, and since then our recessions and recoveries have tended to be shaped like a ‘V,’ while the one we’re in is more likely going to look like an ‘L’ followed by a ‘W’. [read post]