I’ve broken this into two posts, since it was getting rather lengthy. First, let me point out some interesting remarks by Alan Greenspan yesterday. He was, at least to me,…

Greenspan and Job Security Fed Chair Alan Greenspan must both want to keep his job and think that Dean is going to be the next president. On Friday, CNN and…

Alan Krueger And Happiness It took awhile for me to remember after his apparent suicide that the late Alan Krueger was the coauthor of what I consider to be the…

An Intro and some history: Alan Collinge at Student Loan Justice Organization. Alan has collected 1,065,931 signatures on his petition asking President Joe Biden to cancel student loan debt. His…

GREENSPAN There was a discussion of Greenspan as a Fed Chairman earlier today. Different people were making various claims with no evidence to support their positions. So I though I…

…While many credit Greenspan for the booming economy of the late 1990s, his term should be evaluated on how well he fulfilled his core duty: maintaining the value of the…

No, Mr. Chairman. We were not all wrong: Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan and Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) sparred today at a congressional hearing over whether Greenspan deserves some…

First, it was Senator Reid annd now, it’s Paul Krugman: Four years ago, Alan Greenspan urged Congress to cut taxes, asserting that the federal government was in imminent danger of…

…GREENSPAN, which made the same observation and concluded, “A normal person would at least be embarrassed by all this. But Alan Greenspan has never been a mere mortal, has he?”…

…percent. ” And from CNN/Money: “Greenspan paves way for higher rates. The nation’s economy is stronger and interest rates must rise eventually to keep inflation in check, Alan Greenspan said…