Here’s the highlight reel from Greenspan’s testimony before Congress today. First, some comments about the state of the economy thus far in 2005: In mid-February, when I presented our last…

Greenspan made some reasonable points about US trade with China during his testimony before the Senate Finance Committee today. First, he said that a yuan revaluation against the dollar probably…

Greenspan made some remarks about the Interest Rate Mystery during a conference yesterday in Beijing. Slightly disconcertingly, none of the prevailing theories as to why long-term rates are so low…

…me that the book does not ascribe sufficient, er, richness or texture to the behavior we saw in Alan Greenspan. It assumes that Greenspan was little more than a bumbling…

…I can safely and for sure tell you that food labeling is approved by the USDA and or the FDA. A small change in a label or packaging such as…

by cactus The Greenspan Fed, the 2000 Election, and the 2001 Recession In the past, I’ve had a few posts on the Greenspan era Fed. I’ve noted that some of…

…it started, or lasted so long, or ended.) So Slate’s Jacob Weisberg went digging for answers. Just about everybody agrees that Alan Greenspan is at fault, somehow. After that, everything is…

…sold at major retailers today, such as legendary Half of Fame MLB pitcher Nolan Ryan’s private label beef that is carried exclusively at Kroger stores, or at his private label…

Greenspan first calls for cutting Social Security benefits, which would mean part of that 12.4% payroll contribution would become a pure and simple backdoor employment tax increase. Now Greenspan calls…

Without a shred of evidence or theoretical justification, Greenspan said this today on Capitol Hill: “Addressing the government’s own imbalances will require scrutiny of both spending and taxes. However, tax…