Greenspan vs Klein on Democracy Now
Just an FYI related to recent postings here. Democracy Now for 9/24 has about a 38 minute discussion with both Naomie Klien and Alan Greenspan. The remaining minutes is with Jeremy Scahill. This...
View ArticleCredit Where Due, Brad DeLong edition
The defences of Alan Greenspan at Grapsing Reality… are legendary. (This response to Tom is my favorite of the lot, and rather representative.) Which makes today’s conversion announcement all the more...
View ArticleGruesome Find of the Day
Greenspan’s Body Count “You know go to Disney every year, just have two kids, a boy and a girl, and a retarded golden retriever, and we’re just a regular family,” she said. The post Gruesome Find of...
View ArticleThe Perfect Negative Indicator Weighs In
Alan Greenspan: The U.S. Federal Reserve has done all it can do to reduce unemployment and needs to worry more about the risk of inflation from the stimulus it poured into the economy, former Fed...
View ArticleOnly that which is rational is real
CNBC reports Greenspan … added that the financial crisis could not have been foreseen. “It is just not feasible to forecast a financial crisis,” he said. “A financial crisis by definition is a sharp...
View ArticleWe Beat the Germans in 1918/And They’ve Hardly Bothered Us Since Then
Brad DeLong culls the comments to this post at Crooked Timber to produce a “with notably rare exceptions” Greatest Hits package—his second post riffing on the original—in honor of The Maestro...
View Article“The messenger wore a skirt,” says Marna Tucker, “Could Alan Greenspan take...
by run75411 Re-posted from New Agenda April 2009, Bill reminds us of some of the history leading up to today: Editor’s note: We are pleased to present this guest post by Bill H, who’s known around the...
View ArticleAlan Greenspan Forecasts Extremely Low Economic Growth for Germany, Finland,...
Alan Greenspan, the former chairman of the Federal Reserve, weighed in last week on one of the pressing issues facing the incoming Trump administration and the country — slow economic growth....
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