…for deregulation and new financial instruments was not new then. Alan Greenspan was reappointed by Clinton (and enthusiastically applauded by Paul Krugman). The economic disaster convinced many Democrats that they…

…cost less per dollar loaned and recoup greater than the dollar loaned in default as pointed out by Alan Collinge of the Student Loan Justice Org. Increasing student loans today…

…chart and Alan Thomson at Terra Firma Financial for digging it out. (JGB is Japanese government bonds.) Before the last 3 recessions in Japan the yield curve flattened out a…

…to orthodoxy, deregulated markets don’t tend towards equilibrium but deepen the economy’s tendency to systemic crisis. Alan Greenspan, the former chairman of the US Federal Reserve and high priest of…

…Clinton administration official Alan Blinder and co-author Mark Watson [look] at the well-established fact that GDP growth under Democratic Party presidents is more rapid than under GOP Presidents, and concludes…

…floor. Two bright young economists at Princeton, David Card and Alan B. Krueger, recognized in that dull occurrence a promising natural experiment (*). The two found fast-food joints along the…

Robert Solow wrote an article about Greenspan, his successes and his mistakes, Alan Greenspan Is Still Trying to Justify His Bad Decisions; What the maestro doesn’t understand. Even though I…

…like Kevin McCarthy screaming in traffic. But I wonder what his base is — Tyrone: 27%. John: … you said that immmediately, and with some authority. Tyrone: Obama vs. Alan…

…Literature by Alan J. Auerbach of the University of California, Berkeley, and Joel Slemrod of the University of Michigan, which found almost no “real” effects on the economy despite massive…

…of the greatest financial disaster in 80 years? Afterthought: It’s entirely possible that the Fed, and most particularly bubble denier Alan Greenspan, were complicit in the many-years-long prelude that set…