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What’s Up With the Housing Market?

…fastest, and spread from there. By the end of this year housing markets may well be cooling in many parts of the country. What does Alan Greenspan do then? Kash…

Prospects for Business Spending

…the year, as Alan Greenspan seems to be arguing. Curious, I thought I’d try to take a rough look at where business spending currently is compared to historical experience. The…

Which Comes First: Farce or Tragedy?

Based on the latest from Illinois Republicans, I’d say farce: Illinois Republican leaders late Wednesday asked conservative talk-show host Alan Keyes to be their candidate for the U.S. Senate, but…

Sitting Next to Mrs. Kerry

During the 1993 State of the Union, Alan Greenspan sat next to Mrs. Clinton. A friend asked what does this imply? We now know that the successful economic policies of…

…other spent four years trying to stop it. Yet we agree on one thing. Alan Greenspan should not raise interest rates now or in the near future. …And while growth…

Alan Greenspan was at the International Monetary Conference in London, England on June 8. This speech was looked on with much interest by markets because it was almost a year…

…subject of “Simulating U.S. Tax Reform”by David Altig, Alan Auerbach, Laurence Kotlifkoff, Kent Summers, and Jan Walliser (NBER Working Paper # 6248, Oct. 1997, with an early version available here)….

…this too for Bush41 to clean up. But Reagan did ask Alan Greenspan to chair a Social Security commission that had the foresight to raise payroll contributions to fund the…

Greenspan the Partisan Kenneth Thomas of Wharton has published information that he received under the FOIA confirming what we already suspected: close coordination between the White House and Alan Greenspan….

…be forced to limit its dollar purchases to avoid excessive economic growth, Federal Reserve Board Chairman Alan Greenspan warned Tuesday. “China’s central bank purchases of dollars, unless offset, threaten an…