Alan Greenspan

by Julianne LaJeunesse- University of New Mexico Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan testified before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Thursday to talk about federal spending, saying that creation of a Congressional task force to deal with national debt, is a good idea. The notion of creating an entity to deal with the United [...]  

In October 2008, former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan famously admitted during testimony before Congress that he was wrong about regulation of the U.S. financial system. Asked by Henry Waxman (D-CA) if "your ideology was not right, it was not working?" a humbled Greenspan lamented: "I made a mistake in presuming that the self-interests of organizations, specifically banks and others, were such as that they were best capable of...  

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The 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 Chairman Alan Greenspan said on Sunday. More on Alan Greenspan  

The biggest stock market advance in seven decades is reducing the needfor additional government stimulus measures, according to formerFederal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan.  

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 Chairman Alan Greenspan said on Sunday.But didn't we just Get All That Money Back? [link added]Greenspan's reason unemployment will go down soon: GOVERNMENT JOBS:Greenspan said he expected the U.S. unemployment rate, which is currently at 10 percent...  

In his 1981 inaugural address, former President Ronald Reagan said, "Government is not the solution to our problems; government is the problem." Nearly 29 years later, that still holds true according to CNBC "Mad Money" host Jim Cramer and former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan. Both Cramer and Greenspan were guests on NBC's Dec. 13 "Meet the Press" and although neither was making a vain effort to be nostalgic, but instead explained...  

The Federal Reserve needs to worry more about the risk of inflation from the stimulus it poured into the economy, former Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan said on Sunday.  

In his 2001 testimony, Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan testified before the House Committee on the Budget, and while offering his usual cautions and caveats, Greenspan talked of surpluses for the foreseeable future. More on Alan Greenspan  

I APPRECIATED Garry Emmons’s ( “Corporate greed and disaster? Like pages from a crime novel,’’ oped, Dec. 15) cautionary tale of Alan Greenspan’s unswerving disastrous devotion to Ayn Rand’s laissez-faire financial model. Using this philosophy, Greenspan built a financial house of cards based on trust without verification.  

Dec. 13: Former Fed chairman Alan Greenspan discusses the outlook for employment in the United States with NBC’s David Gregory on “Meet the Press.”Add this to your queueAdded: Sun Dec 13 20:47:04 UTC 2009Air date: Sun Dec 13 00:00:00 UTC 2009Duration: 02:17  

The Black Monday stock-market plunge that greeted Alan Greenspan in 1987 was a breeze compared with the hurricanes that confronted Ben S. Bernanke during his first term as Federal Reserve chairman. In fact, if you added up all the crises that Mr. Greenspan faced during his 18 years as Fed chairman — Black Monday, the savings and loan blowout, the Mexican peso debacle, the Asian financial meltdown, the implosion of Long-Term Capital Management...  

New York (BoerseGo.de) – Nach einem Bericht der Nachrichtenagentur Reuters vertritt der frühere US-Notenbankchef Alan Greenspan die Auffassung, dass die Fed alles in ihrer Macht Stehende getan habe, u..  

Fred Sheehan clearly dislikes former Fed chairman Alan Greenspan even more than yours truly, now having written two books on the subject. Recently released Panderer to Power: The True Story of How Alan Greenspan Enriched Wall Street and Left a Legacy of Recession follows Sheehan's earlier work, co-written with Bill Fleckenstein, with the more succinct (but more damning) title of Greenspan's Bubbles: The Age of Ignorance at the Federal Reserve...  

DOWNLOADS: (9) PLAYS: (8) So nice of David Gregory to make sure we all got to hear what the man who's been wrong about everything, Alan Greenspan...  

Wall Street Cheat Sheet gives this prestigious award to the man who without him, the financial collapse could not have happened – Alan (”I heart Ayn Rand”) Greenspan. The video explains that Ayn Rand would have detested what Greenspan did, as he was constantly meddling with the markets and never allowed the destructive side of [...]