…in advance. So Ronald Reagan convened the National Commission on Social Security Reform, generally referred to as the Greenspan Commission, to head off the predictable financing problem. Following the Commission’s recommendations,…

…Kennedy administration to a cut in tax rates that occurred the year after he died. (Actually, even Alan Greenspan made this one well before he made the transition from Maestro…

…predatory lending got worse, and the powers that be—in particular and let me name names, Alan Greenspan, the Chairman of the Federal Reserve—was able to retire in glory. Is there…

…question of whether economics is a science. In order of how focused on the posts are on that particular question…. Barry Ritholtz is on fire with this post on Alan…

…of an inflation rate above 1 percent would have been close to zero. Several obvious questions: The period in question includes Alan Greenspan’s last hurrah as Chair of the FRB….

…baby boomer’s retirement this century, back in 1985 Alan Greenspan and the Democratic Congress changed the plan to overtax FICA payers so that the baby boom could pre-pay their retirements….

by Bruce Webb Back in 2000 Alan Greenspan warned Congress about the potential disappearance of the long bond in the face of continuing surpluses. He probably knew at the time…

…Alan Greenspan has had fewer traffic accidents, since he stopped using brakes. I know some people still teach about friction in third rate departments, but they aren’t really advancing the…

…time come to mind: Raghuram Rajan, Alan Greenspan, and me. What are we, chopped liver?” But that’s not 2 % of it. The set of nobodies who don’t count included…

…personal note, [Bernanke] doesn’t have the gravitas of a Paul Volcker, Alan Greenspan or William McChesney Martin. In this day and age of crisis management, gravitas is essential. Almost anyone…