economist.com - 3/16/2009
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ALAN GREENSPAN’s defence of the Federal Reserve in the formation of the housing bubble restates a familiar argument—it raised short-term interest rates but long-term interest rates did not follow, and housing is most sensitive to long-term rates. His proof includes the fact that long-term rates ...
Alan Greenspan, Socialist
yglesias.thinkprogress.org 12/5/2008 —
Krugman talks about Alan Greenspan :
What was the problem with Greenspan, and where and when did he go wrong?
Greenspan is the real thing. He believes the Fed can be the designated driver, the one who takes you home safely after the party has ...
Alan Greenspan: The Oracle Or The Master Of Disaster?
huffingtonpost.com 2/19/2009 — On June 10, 1999, at the height of his power, Alan Greenspan told members of Harvard's graduating class how, in the future, they should assess their lives: "The true measure of a career is to be able to be content, even proud, that you succeeded ...
A Failure of Capitalism: Reply to Alan Greenspan
correspondents.theatlantic.com 5/26/2009 — I have received an email from Alan Greenspan in which he expresses regret at what he describes as my "rather thin analysis of the source of the current financial crisis." He states that his "view is different," and by way...
The Alan Greenspan Story: From Objectivist to Statist
henrymarkholzer.blogspot.com 3/4/2009 — In the mid-1960s my wife, Erika Holzer, and I were members of a small circle the hub of which was Ayn Rand, whose magnum opus, Atlas Shrugged, had been published in 1957. Another member—who by then had been associated with Rand for several years—was ...
Alan Greenspan has learned nothing
blogs.reuters.com 10/2/2009 — David Leonhardt interviewed Alan Greenspan at the Atlantic event in Washington this morning, and it was quite shocking how little Greenspan seems to have learned from the crisis. Yes, he has decided that banks need more capital: "You cannot function ...
Are We Too Hard On Greenspan? (Hint: Probably Not.)
blogs.tnr.com 6/29/2009 — In a thoughtful post about the former Fed chairman, Brad DeLong writes:
There is, however, active debate over whether there was a fourth mistake: whether Alan Greenspan's decision in 2001-2004 to push and keep nominal interest rates on Treasury ...
Greenspan’s Underpants
outsidethebeltway.com 4/9/2009 — The economy is not doing well.
To be sure, some of you may have already sensed that, what with the bursting of the housing bubble, the bank failures, insurance failures, auto company failures, massive government bailouts, burgeoning unemployment, and ...
Greenspan Says He Was Mystified by Subprime Market
dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com 2/12/2009 — Alan Greenspan, the former chairman of the Federal Reserve, told CNBC in a documentary to be shown Thursday night that he did not fully understand the scope of the subprime mortgage market until well into 2005 and could not make sense of the complex ...
Not So Fast, Al
blah3.com 3/16/2009 — Alan Greenspan was in the pages of the Wall St. Journal again this week with his "don't look at me" defense of his stewardship of the Federal Reserve and how he had nothing to do with our country's current crisis. I beg to differ. I pointed this out ...
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