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Alan Greenspan: What Went Wrong [EVERYTHING] The former Fed chairman on where the economy went wrong, where he went wrong—and Ayn Rand. online.wsj/news/articles/SB10001424052702304410204579139900796324772 [The Federal Reserve chairman — an economist and a disciple of libertarian icon Ayn Rand — met his first major challenge in office by preventing the 1987 stock-market crash from spiraling into something much worse. Then, in the 1990s, he presided over a long economic and financial-market boom and attained the status of Washingtons resident wizard. But the super-low interest rates Greenspan brought in the early 2000s and his long-standing disdain for regulation are now held up as leading causes of the mortgage crisis. The maestro admitted in an October congressional hearing that he had made a mistake in presuming that financial firms could regulate themselves.]
Posted on: Sun, 20 Oct 2013 12:24:41 +0000

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