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We Were Not All Wrong

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…

Malpass: Deficits Bad, Tax Cuts Good

David Malpass opens his NRO oped by noting Alan Greenspan’s “warnings on the deficit situation”, but then writes: In a good turn of events, however, the recently passed House and…

Taking the Gloves Off With Respect to Greenspan

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…

The Interest Rate Mystery

…to rise. But no. Last June rates on 30-year fixed mortgages averaged 6.29 percent; now they’re about 5.7 percent. Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan recently called the declines a “conundrum”….

Charles Krauthammer: What’s in Your Wallet?

…Of course, this pay-as-you-go claim is based on the premise that President Reagan and Alan Greenspan lied to us in 1983. Back then, the stated reason for increasing the payroll…

Calling It Like It Is

Krugman leaves absolutely no room for doubt about what he thinks of Alan Greenspan: A disturbing thing about Wednesday’s hearing was the deference with which Democratic senators treated Mr. Greenspan….

Bush the Economist

…Bush said. “Independently, the Federal Reserve, under the leadership of Alan Greenspan, raised the interest rates yet again, a signal to the world markets that the Chairman is also aware…

Lou Dobbs on Outsourcing Production of Pharmaceuticals

…list of products increasingly manufactured overseas and sold to U.S. consumers. ALAN TOMELSON, U.S. BUSINESS AND INDUSTRY COUNCIL: U.S.-based pharmaceutical producers have been steadily losing market share to pharmaceutical imports…

The Saving Problem

…financial imbalances. Such a transition is probably what Alan Greenspan has had in mind when he has talked about a smooth and natural resolution to the US’s current account deficit….

Greenspan on the US’s External Imbalances

Today Alan Greenspan gave an address to a central bankers’ conference in Frankfurt — at the end of a week that has seen the dollar plumb new depths of weakness…