Alan Greenspan the oracle behind the curtain /

Includes information on Ben S. Bernanke, Arthur Burns, George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton, Federal Reserve, Martin S. Feldstein, Goldilocks economy, Greenspan standard, John Maynard Keynes, Lawrence Lindsey, long term capital management, Robert Rubin, Adam Smith, Social Security system, Wall Street, etc...

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Main Author: Canterbery, E. Ray.
Format: Book
Language: English
Published: New Jersey : World Scientific, 2006.
Physical Description: xiii, 193 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Greenspan and the myth of his purity
  • Adam Smith, free markets and the Greenspan standard
  • When markets has failed, Greenspan has been on the scene
  • The independence of Alan Greenspan and the federal reserve system
  • Fedspeak and the innocent hypocrisy of independence
  • White House dependence and the hypocrisy of personal interference
  • Greenspanmail redefines the new democrats
  • Fed and White House dependence on Wall Street investment bankers
  • The fable of the Goldilocks economy
  • The wolf at the door of ordinary workers
  • Global market failures
  • The collapse of the great American stock market bubble
  • Derivatives: throwing in the chips
  • Fed dependence on Hedge funds?
  • Greenspan takes us from Goldilocks to the soft patch and back again
  • The housing bubble conundrum
  • Social security: on the cutting edge of Federal budget deficits
  • Getting personal with savings, at home and abroad
  • King Alan II
  • Prospects for reform.