…Chair Paul Volcker. Dem Bill Clinton reappointed GOP Alan Greenspan, and Dem Barack Obama reappointed GOP Ben Bernanke. But it is all but taken for granted that there is no…

…Of course Alan Greenspan got lots of praise during the “Great Moderation,” but then many later decided that he laid the groundwork for the housing bubble and crash that came…

…Many economists vaguely think that more individual saving results in some larger stock of monetary “savings.” Sheesh.) >Roth’s presentation…is not new. Alan Greenspan wrote about these ideas back in the…

…single dispositive metric. In particular, note what happened back in 1994 and 1995 when Alan Greenspan raised interest rates sharply – and yet the unemployment rate continued to go down….

…for high house prices, they should look to the financial industry and the failed regulators of the bubble era, most notably Alan Greenspan, but also Ben Bernanke, and Larry Summers….

…exuberance” to use former Fed Chair Alan Greenspan’s great term. Only the first reason reflects good news for the economy. The other two are negatives from the standpoint of the…

…I was in the Clinton administration when Fed Chair Alan Greenspan threatened to raise interest rates (which might also have led to a recession and cause voters to boot Clinton…

…Krugman on his NYT blog, in which he discusses Alan Krueger’s speech last week. Krugman’s blog entry says: “Alan Krueger, the chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers … gave…

Matt Stoller, the former Senior Policy Advisor to Rep. Alan Grayson and a fellow at the Roosevelt Institute has a couple of very interesting articles posted at Naked Capitalism, Why…

…Robert J. Gordon, and Alan Blinder. 2. Tax Incentives. When economists address tax policy, they often speak of “distortions.” The implied claim is that distortions are bad, and should be…