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| | Alan Greenspan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Greenspan continues to support a gold standard and advocate laissez-faire capitalism [14] [15]. | | | Greenspan also has served as a corporate director for Aluminum Company of America (Alcoa); Automatic Data Processing, Inc. ; Capital Cities/ABC, Inc. ; General Foods, Inc. ; J.P. Morgan and Co., Inc. ; Morgan Guaranty Trust Company of New York; Mobil Corporation; and The Pittston Company [1]. | | | Charges that Greenspan was veering beyond the Fed's purview of monetary policy into fiscal and political matters traditionally left to lawmakers became more prevalent. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Greenspan
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| | >Outing Alan Greenspan Dollars & Sense |
| | In other words, Greenspan is the chief enabler of the Republican "starve the beast" strategy for slashing government spending--first enacting tax cuts and then insisting that spending cuts (not tax increases) are necessary to restore budget balance. | | | Robert Pollin, co-director of the Political Economy Research Institute, reports that a majority of the federal budget's swing from deficits to surpluses during the second half of the 1990s came from reducing government spending relative to the size of the economy. | | | And Greenspan's insistence that inflation must be kept low to protect the value of stocks and bonds even if it means keeping a cap on employment growth might count for a lot in the minds of some--but it shouldn't. |
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http://www.dollarsandsense.org/archives/2005/0705miller.html
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| | Greenspan optimistic about economy, sees risks - Jul. 16, 2002 |
| | Greenspan praised the legislation, sponsored by Sen. Paul Sarbanes, D-Md., and passed Monday by the Senate, to reform corporate accounting and governance, while warning that he did not feel qualified to address the specific components of the bill. | | | Still, Greenspan said, while business managers were cautious, their spending was likely to improve this year, though slowly and unevenly in some areas, boosted by rising profits, low interest rates and high productivity. | | | Greenspan held up as an example of a desirable model for earnings reports the profit calculations of the Commerce Department for the National Income and Product Accounts. |
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http://money.cnn.com/2002/07/16/news/economy/greenspan
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| | Greenspan Shrugged: The Reserve Chair's Philosophy Differs Little From His Ayn Rand Days |
| | Greenspan has argued that the self-interest of the corporations – the desire of corporations to protect their reputation – was all that was necessary for consumer protection. | | | The survey, which was authorized as part of the financial reforms adopted in 1989, has proven an excellent tool that consumer groups have used to highlight and battle the excessive fees that banks impose on consumers. | | | Yet Congress, with only half-hearted opposition from the Clinton administration's Treasury Department, handed Greenspan and the Federal Reserve the regulatory plums when it authorized the merger of banks, securities firms, and insurance companies under common ownership in giant conglomerates. |
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http://www.commondreams.org/views/041800-106.htm
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| | Greenspan urges cuts in Social Security benefits - Martin Wolk: Eye on the Economy - MSNBC.com |
| | Analysts said Greenspan’s comments reflected his growing nervousness about the potential economic impact of rising federal budget deficits, although some found his timing puzzling and questioned the focus on Social Security, which by all accounts is in far better fiscal shape than Medicare. | | | In testimony to the House Budget Committee, Greenspan suggested raising the retirement age and trimming future cost-of-living adjustments to address shortfalls in Social Security revenues that are expected after about 2018. | | | Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan testifies before the House Budget Committee Wednesday in Washington. |
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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4373896
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| | Foreign Policy: Think Again: Alan Greenspan |
| | Greenspan’s leadership in monetary policy undoubtedly played an important role in fostering the conditions that allowed the U.S. economy to surge in the 1990s. | | | U.S. Federal Reserve Board Chairman Alan Greenspan is credited with simultaneously achieving record-low inflation, spawning the largest economic boom in U.S. history, and saving the world from financial collapse. | | | But, when Greenspan steps down next year, he will leave behind a record foreign deficit and a generation of Americans with little savings and mountains of debt. |
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http://www.foreignpolicy.com/story/files/story2747.php
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| | Online NewsHour: The power of Alan Greenspan -- December 6, 1996 |
| | ALAN GREENSPAN, Chairman, Federal Reserve Board: How do we know when irrational exuberance has unduly escalated asset values which then become the subject of unexpected and prolonged contractions as they have in Japan over the past decade. | | | But Chairman Greenspan in this regard is clearly the second most powerful person in our government, and the reason is that the Federal Reserve has the flexibility in terms of changing policy, the independence, in essence, to move fairly quickly, if it feels it's appropriate. | | | Economic correspondent Paul Solman looks at the power of the Federal Reserve and its chairman, Alan Greenspan. |
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http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/economy/december96/greenspan_12-6.html
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| | -THE CUNNING REALIST-: The Maestro: Living History |
| | Greenspan's acquiescence to the Bush tax cuts in the face of the alarming explosion of the deficit should not be forgotten. | | | Greenspan wrote the letter while he was a paid consultant for Lincoln Savings & Loan of Irvine, CA, owned by a Charles Keating, Jr., company. | | | Greenspan's background with the Savings and Loan Crisis in the 1980's is a classic. |
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http://cunningrealist.blogspot.com/2005/03/maestro-living-history.html
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| | The One-Eyed King |
| | The logical response is a fundamental policy shift in favor of work and wages--boosting incomes and demand--but that approach would require taboo measures from the Keynesian past that even most Democrats don't understand or support. | | | He resurrected the financier's lost religion, now dignified by conservative economists as the new theory of "efficient markets." Keynesian demand-side stimulus, they contended, produces no lasting effects for the economy, so nothing will be gained by worrying about wage incomes and the consuming power of workers. | | | There has been nothing like it since the New Deal years, when Marriner Eccles was Fed chairman and collaborated closely with FDR to reform the central bank and convert it to the economic understandings grounded in Keynesian liberalism. |
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http://www.thenation.com/docprint.mhtml?i=20050919&s=greider
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| | Alan Greenspan |
| | Having now hooked a MUCH larger percentage of the populace on his E-2 money policy than was the case during the Nasdaq bubble, you would think that Greenspan would hesitate before tightening credit conditions too drastically. | | | But some time back, I read an entertaining article by a fellow market watcher who took issue with the notion, if not the modern legend, that Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan had set a new standard for central bankers by guiding the U.S. economy and financial markets so steadily for (now) nearly 18 years. | | | The weakening dollar has caused dollar-denominated oil (and other commodities) to soar, exacerbating our imbalances even more (such as in November, when the trade deficit hit a MONTHLY total of $60 billion for the first time). |
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http://www.nationalinvestor.com/alan_greenspan.htm
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| | Alan Greenspan |
| | Greenspan, Alan, 1926&;, American economist, chairman of the Federal Reserve Board (1987&;), b. | | | , Greenspan is a strong supporter of the free market and an opponent of government intervention in the economy. | | | As Federal Reserve chairman, he earlier emphasized controlling inflation over promoting economic growth, but by 2003 a prolonged economic slowdown had shifted concern to possible deflation. |
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http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/people/A0821769.html
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| | Alan Greenspan |
| | Since 1997, Greenspan has been married to NBC foreign affairs reporter Andrea Mitchell. | | | As Fed chairman, he sets the interest rates, and is largely responsible for directing U.S. national monetary policy. | | | Bill Gross, the founder of Pacific Investment Management Company (PIMCO) who oversees some $350 billion in fixed income securities, has compared Greenspan to Barney Fife, the bumbling deputy from Andy of Mayberry. |
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http://www.nndb.com/people/164/000023095
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| | Alan Greenspan Timeline |
| | Greenspan presents a paper critical of antitrust laws to the Antitrust Seminar of the National Association of Business Economists. | | | After Nixon's victory, Greenspan is offered a position in the administration, but declines. | | | The Greenspan Commission issues its report on Social Security reform. |
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http://www.noblesoul.com/orc/bio/greenspan-time.html
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| | Alan Greenspan at Salon.com |
| | Instead of accepting Greenspan's false argument that deficits will undermine Social Security, Democrats should actually call for more federal borrowing -- and spend the money on rebuilding America. | | | His paranoia about inflation helped send world markets into free fall last week. | | | In "Irrational Exuberance," Robert Shiller credits investors' folly with keeping the bull market on its feet. |
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http://dir.salon.com/topics/alan_greenspan
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| | The American Enterprise: Alan Greenspan and Ayn Rand |
| | It would probably mean there is only one vote in the Federal Open Market Committee for that, but it is mine.” This may be the first time that advocating a policy on a nationally televised Senate committee meeting has been characterized as trying to implement a policy “ever so quietly.” | | | “Now my next question is, is it your intention that the report of this hearing should be that Greenspan recommends a return to the gold standard?” Greenspan responded, “I’ve been recommending that for years, there’s nothing new about that
. | | | No more waiting for everyone to realize that extreme laissez-faire capitalism is the best system: He’s taking control of the process himself, ever so quietly.” Only a few months earlier, Greenspan had recommended to a Senate committee that all economic regulations should have fixed lifespans. |
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http://www.taemag.com/issues/articleid.16149/article_detail.asp
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| | BW Online August 29, 2003 Greenspan's Credibility Gap |
| | Instead, he used a broad brush to describe his own strategy of formulating monetary policy, which he dubbed a "risk-management approach." Unfortunately, while that may help increase understanding in the future, it likely will do little to improve the Fed's credibility now and relieve the upward pressure on bond yields and mortgage interest rates. | | | And with inflation then low and likely to remain that way, it decided that the costs of taking out such an insurance policy were minimal, Greenspan explained. | | | Investors, stung by the wide swings in bond prices over the past few months, blame Greenspan and the Fed for misleading the markets about the threat of deflation and the central bank's likely response to it. |
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http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/aug2003/nf20030829_9263_db016.htm
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| | MSN Money - Don't take mortgage advice from Alan Greenspan |
| | Turning to a more objective analysis in The New York Times of Feb. 24, titled "Greenspan says personal debt Is mitigated by housing value," I note some even more outrageous comments. | | | He has been doing this serially since junk bonds and bad lending nearly took down the financial system at the end of the 1980s and wiped out the savings and loan industry in 1990-1991. | | | Called "Fed chief questions loan choices," it begins: "In a rare evaluation of interest-rate options that households face, Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan questioned whether American homeowners are well served by popular fixed-rate long-term mortgages." |
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http://moneycentral.msn.com/content/P73977.asp
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| | H4x0r Economist |
| | From time to time I receive complaints about Alan Greenspan's job decisions. | | | I am more or less totally out of ideas for H4x0r Economist. | | | Rest assured - I save these complaints and pass them on to Mr. |
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| | Rich-poor gap gaining attention csmonitor.com |
| | Greenspan speaks about this topic at all may show how much the growing concentration of national wealth at the top, combined with the uncertainties of increased globalization, worries economic policymakers as they peer into the future. | | | But it's also a line from the recent public testimony of a champion of the free market: Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan. | | | The result of this, said Greenspan, is that the US now has a significant divergence in the fortunes of different groups in its labor market. |
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http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0614/p01s03-usec.html?s=itm
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| | Harry Reid Calls Alan Greenspan a “Hack” » Outside The Beltway OTB |
| | Personally, I contend that the boom of the ’90s had much more to do with the dot.com boom and other developments totally unrelated to government than anything Clinton, Greenspan, or Gingrich did. | | | Unlike Bush’s 2003 tax cut which almost immediately sparked economic growth, Clinton’s tax increase did no such thing. | | | Reid ripped Greenspan during an interview on CNN’s “Inside Politics.” He said the Fed chairman has given President Bush a pass on deficits that have built up in the past four years and should be challenging Republicans on their fiscal policies, rather than promoting Bush’s plan to introduce personal accounts into Social Security. |
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http://outsidethebeltway.com/archives/2005/03/harry_reid_blasts_greenspan
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| | Technorati Tag: alan greenspan |
| | Become a member to save searches in a Watchlist. | | | Now you can see the Top 100 Blogs, as measured by your Favorites! | | | Downloadable Papers Established site sells papers pertaining to Alan Greenspan. |
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| | The House of Degenhart » Greenspan’s Plan |
| | Thus a logical extension of the creation of a medium of exchange is the development of a banking system and credit instruments (bank notes and deposits) which act as a substitute for, but are convertible into, gold. | | | If you remember our discussion on Primitive Money Theory, we contrasted money (gold, silver, or some other item of value) with fiat money (something of little or no value, such as a piece of paper, that has imputed value only), and Greenspan’s article has some good background on the nature and benefits of money. | | | Even the pagan Greenspan recognised this, and his distaste for those natural boundaries is why he tried to make a logical case for the necessity of the modern banking system, the system he now serves as Chairman and Chief Apologist. |
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http://www.degenhart.us/blog/?p=151
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| | President ‘moving ahead’ on Fed successor - After Greenspan - MSNBC.com |
| | Greenspan’s 18-year run on the Federal Reserve is expected to end on Jan. 31. | | | MSNBC Home » Business » Stocks and Economy » After Greenspan | | | Greenspan, 79, has signaled he prefers to retire when his term ends early next year, although the White House could ask him to stay on longer if a successor is not confirmed by Jan. 31. |
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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9621115
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| | Alan Greenspan |
| | He was widely perceived as an inflation hawk, often criticized for focusing more on controlling prices than on achieving full employment. | | | He became known for being adept at guiding the Fed's board to consensus on policy issues and his public comments were regarded as so powerful that they could send financial markets sharply in either direction. | | | Greenspan is the first person to have been appointed to five consecutive terms as the Fed's chairman. |
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http://www.investopedia.com/terms/a/alangreenspan.asp
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| | Forbes.com |
| | America's economist took a drubbing in 1996 for suggesting, at the start of the dot-com boom, that investors were susceptible to bouts of "irrational exuberance." This year's rate cuts, enacted in part to mop up the fallout from the boom's failure, have done little to soothe investors or get the economy moving. | | | Chairman and President of Townsend-Greenspan and Co.(1954-1974, 1977-1987); Chairman of the National Commission on Social Security Reform (1981-1983); nominated to the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System to fill an unexpired term (1987); reappointed to a full 14-year term (1992); named chairman of the Board for a fourth four-year term (June 2000). | | | Is Wall Street falling out of love with Alan Greenspan again? |
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http://www.forbes.com/2001/10/15/agreenspan.html
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| | GreenspanLaw |
| | It is better and more comprehensive than Maestro, but it too suffers from a reverential tone; one surmises the author cut the Chairman some slack on account of a presumption of shared ideology. | | | King Alan was an unconventional economist by any measure. | | | According to most accounts, including Alan Shrugged, the Chairman& career in public policy began as the result of a chance encounter in 1966 with Leonard Garment, formerly the Chairman& band manager and at that time Richard Nixon’s law partner at Mudge, Rose. |
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http://www.goldensextant.com/GreenspanLaw.html
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| | CNN.com - Knighthood for Fed's Greenspan - Sep. 26, 2002 |
| | Greenspan, 76, has been dubbed the second most powerful man in America and has steered the country's economy through four presidencies. | | | Greenspan, accompanied by his wife Andrea Mitchell, receives the award | | | CNN's Richard Quest reports Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II for his contribution to global economic stability |
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http://archives.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/europe/09/26/greenspan.knighthood
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| | Alan Greenspan quotes |
| | “Anything that we can do to raise personal savings is very much in the interest of this country," Greenspan said. |
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http://en.thinkexist.com/quotes/alan_greenspan
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| | NEWSMEAT ► Alan Greenspan's Federal Campaign Contribution Report |
| | Data for this NEWSMEAT report provided by the Federal Election Commission as of 3/20/06 — 12,260,341 records | | | NEWSMEAT ► Alan Greenspan's Federal Campaign Contribution Report | | | Receive an alert every time new records are added to Alan Greenspan's report |
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http://www.newsmeat.com/washington_political_donations/Alan_Greenspan.php
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| | Alan Greenspan as Mabus |
| | Alan Greenspan holds the fate of the U.S. economy in his hands — and Americans don't even get to vote for him. | | | Celelebopedia has breaking news on Kanye West, Sanaa Lathan | | | Alan Greenspan is the most powerful man in Washington. |
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