Twangville (Free subscription) | 03/12/2008
So it has now been officially declared that the US is in a recession. Nothing left to do but “party like its 1999.” Prince |MTV Music Can I tell you how much fun I’m having digging through the MTV archives? Post a comment with your favorite video from the MTV archives and you could win [...]
SeekingAlpha.com (Free subscription) | 02/12/2008
Tim Iacono submits: It's been kind of hectic here in San Francisco for the last couple days, so I didn't actually get around to reading this story in the Telegraph, but I just had to share the title and the image. Obviously a deflationista, Mr. Hendry stopped making sense shortly after he concluded the discussion of the late 19th century debate on bimetalism, which was, indeed, a very nice summary...
UK Economics Blog (Free subscription) | 02/12/2008
US interest rate graph WRITING in Slate magazine in 1997, Paul Krugman, an American economist, neatly captured the widespread belief in the omnipotence of the then-chairman of the Federal Reserve. “If you want a simple model for predicting the unemployment rate in the United States over the next few years, here it is: it will be what [Alan] Greenspan wants it to be, plus or minus a random error...
Cato-at-liberty (Free subscription) | 01/12/2008
Jeffrey Rogers Hummel and David Henderson have responded to critics of their defense of Alan Greenspan’s monetary policy. Answering particularly the criticisms of Cato adjunct scholar George Selgin, they provide further evidence for their contention that Greenspan was not pursuing an unduly loose monetary policy in the early years of this decade. As I noted before, in [...]
W.C. Varones Blog (Free subscription) | 01/12/2008
We can't add this one officially to Greenspan's Body Count because the case remains unresolved. The daughter of the victims was a creepy kook who stood to inherit a million dollars, her mom was allegedly slutting around town, and there were various other suspects. But police believe the murderer is Greg and Bernadette Ohlemachers' Countrywide mortgage broker Ron Santiago. We'll reserve judgment...
InformedTrades (Free subscription) | 29/11/2008
jeffnolan said: Robert Rubin on $C demise:"not my fault, Greenspan and I have been unfairly criticized". http://is.gd/9vmJ via StockTwits
Political Insider | ajc.com (Free subscription) | 30/11/2008
Chambliss: Well, he says he would have voted against it. Of course, the guy that he’s joined at the hip with, President-elect Obama, voted for it. You know, that clip is interesting. That was about four seconds out of a 40-minute speech I gave that morning — and which, incidentally, when I made that statement, I was quoting Alan Greenspan, who I have a lot more confidence in than I do Mr. Martin’s...
Richard Sprague (Free subscription) | 29/11/2008
... help. Those of us who believe this idea have long thought of Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan as an ally, so I was intrigued when I saw news reports (now repeated over and over) that he “changed his mind”. Except, he didn't. When I look at the actual transcripts , it's clear to me that careless news reporters have simply spun his remarks incorrectly. Here's the key quote: Chairman...
A Boat Against the Current (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
“There’s a nutty side to libertarians, starting with the Big Girl, Ayn Rand, and going straight through Alan Greenspan. When I go to Cato Institute functions, there’s always a group of guys who look like they cut their own hair and get their mothers to dress them, with lots of buttons about legalizing heroin and demanding a return to the gold standard. The institute has tried to weed them out...
Green Mountain Daily - Front Page (Free subscription) | 14 hours ago
Maybe you can't be at the 7Days lovefest tonight. So sit back, relax, and enjoy some civil discussion of the D and P rift. Included are the definition of an ideologue, the December 6 meeting, the candidate vacuum, "weeniecrats," legislative vs. electoral arenas, and a nice Greenspan hunting season beat rounds it all out.
Offshore Services (Free subscription) | 03/12/2008
The Pre-Public Choice View · A Perfect Introduction to Congress · New Video Punctures Anti- Tax Haven Myths · Here Comes Democracy! We’ll Just Do It! Fairness Doctrine Post-Mortem · Greenspan: The Debate Continues · Cops … or Criminals? ...
Contrarian Musings (Free subscription) | 02/12/2008
The news stories about deflation have been mushrooming again much as they did back in the early 2000s. Back then, Ben Bernanke was a member of the Fed but Greenspan was still chairman. Bernanke convinced Greenspan that deflation was imminent and that it had to be stopped. Oh my God! We can’t let prices fall! [...]
The Street (Free subscription) | 01/12/2008
The 'Greenspan model' says stocks have more upside and bonds are overvalued.
Wonkette (Free subscription) | 01/12/2008
Here’s Saxby Chambliss defending himself, on the Fox News, against a Jim Martin ad that quotes Chambliss saying he doesn’t even know what the term “recession” means. We’ll cut him some slack on that, because a new person is declaring a new version of the word everyday. But what’s notable is that Chambliss defends his comment by saying that he was quoting Alan Greenspan, people. He appears still...
Whiskey Fire (Free subscription) | 03/12/2008
by flory Everybody is pilng on poor Bobby Rubin . And that's as it should be, since Bob Rubin is the dog poop on the sole of Alan Greenspan's shoe. He hit a nerve, did our Bob. More to the...
