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I Be Officially Right of Center Now?

…Memory Meaning as the Suzanne Vega song from Pretty in Pink? Kaufman: During the Greenspan years (1987-2006), the Fed clearly failed to recognize the significance of the many structural changes…

Lender of Only Resort?

…least they did before the Greenspan Put. Here’s a chart of Domestic Financial CP Outstanding and Excessive Reserves over the past twelvemonth: It certainly appears that the banks are using…

Another Cost of Low Prices

…being done by a country G-Mu dislikes, or we’d hear about this at Marginal Revolution. But they’re too busy arguing that the Greenspan Commission were liars with malice aforethought. *Not…

A Case Against MBS

Greenspan) then there will be a national bubble. Financial innovation made it safe to loan so long as national average home prices didn’t collapse. Bankers believed (or pretended to believe…

Diagnosing the Dynamics of Social Security

…Back in 2000 the answer to these questions was pretty easy. From 1997 to 2000 the Reports had significantly under estimated near term growth, moreover then wise men like Greenspan