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Fiscal Policy Options for Bush’s Second Term

…surprise that Alan Greenspan has suggested reducing Social Security benefits. But his suggestion is a far cry from at least what I understand Bush’s privatization plan envisions. Let’s imagine that…

Prospects for Business Spending

…the year, as Alan Greenspan seems to be arguing. Curious, I thought I’d try to take a rough look at where business spending currently is compared to historical experience. The…

Alan Greenspan was at the International Monetary Conference in London, England on June 8. This speech was looked on with much interest by markets because it was almost a year…

Smoking At The Fed

…Volcker and beyond hin to his successor, Alan Greenspan, who was in for the next two decades, only with Bernanke coming in mid-noughties, after when the current PC no-smoking rule…

Gruesome 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,”…

…Steve Rattner Council of Economic Advisers: Alan Blinder; “potential CEA members would include economists Bill Gale and Peter Orszag” U.S. Trade Representative: Gene Sperling or Lael Brainard Federal Reserve: “Alan