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NEWS ABOUT: Alan Greenspan

Alan Greenspan stories: 33 news summaries

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Greenspan Signs On With Mortgage Profiteer

Ex-Fed honcho will advise hedge fund

Jan 15, 08 12:20 PM CST
(Newser) - Paulson & Co. made a fortune as the mortgage crisis unfolded, and now the hedge fund has hired the man some say caused the meltdown. Alan Greenspan, whose actions as chairman of the Fed have been under fire lately, today agreed to advise the firm, which saw one fund rise... More »

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Alan Greenspan • hedge fund • housing crisis • John Paulson • Paulson and Co • subprime crisis

MARKETS

Stagflation Jitters Sink Stocks

Greenspan: 50-50 chance of recession

Dec 17, 07 3:29 PM CST
(Newser) - The markets resumed last week’s downward spiral today, with the Dow diving 172.65 to 13,167.20 despite typically buoying news of major deals. The Nasdaq slid 61.28 to 2,574.46 and the S&P closed at 1,445.90, down 22.05. Alan Greenspan said... More »

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Goldman Sachs • Dow Jones • Alan Greenspan • Nasdaq • stagflation • S&P 500

Greenspan: Odds Rising
for Recession

Former Fed chief
says US economy 'close to stall speed'

Dec 14, 07 9:03 AM CST
(Newser) - Alan Greenspan warned yesterday that sluggish economic growth is increasing the risk of recession. "It's too soon to say, but the odds are clearly rising," the former Fed chief told NPR. The subprime crisis and its resulting credit turmoil has growth "getting close to stall speed,"... More »

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Federal Reserve • Alan Greenspan • recession • US economy

Greenspan Has
'No Particular Regrets'

Former FED chair
calls housing crisis 'a global phenomenon'

Nov 23, 07 5:41 PM CST
(Newser) - The US housing market crisis is not the result of Federal Reserve policies but part of a global phenomenon, former Fed chair Alan Greenspan says. "I have no particular regrets," he said yesterday in Oslo. "The housing bubble is not a reflection of what we did, as... More »

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subprime mortgages • Alan Greenspan • US economy • housing crisis

Bernanke: How's He Doing?

Journal looks back at Fed chairman described as more collaborative, creative than Greenspan

Oct 31, 07 11:05 AM CDT
(Newser) - As the Fed rolls out another anxiously awaited decision on rate cuts, the Wall Street Journal does a play-by-play analysis of Ben Bernanke's handling of the three-month old credit crisis with an eye to what we've learned about the new Fed boss. For starters, he's more open and collaborative than... More »

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Ben Bernanke • Federal Reserve • Alan Greenspan • credit crisis • financial crisis

Best Memoirs About Money

Get the inside scoop on finance from those who live (and lived) it

Oct 20, 07 8:07 AM CDT
(Newser) - Some earn money; some write about it. Some do both. CNN Money recommends these six memoirs about money: getting it, managing it, spending it, and not having enough of it:
  1. The Age of Turbulence by Alan Greenspan
  2. Reminiscences of a Stock Operator by Edwin Lefevre
  3. American Sucker by David
... More »

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Alan Greenspan • list • money • finance • memoir • Edwin Lefevre • David Denby • Benjamin Franklin • Barbara Ehrenreich • Michael Lewis

Alienated Business Voters Ditching GOP

'The party left me' says one; poll, donations show eroding support

Oct 2, 07 2:54 PM CDT
(Newser) - Disappointed fiscal conservatives are less likely than ever to vote Republican, the Wall Street Journal reports, despite the GOP's designation as the pro-business party for more than a century. The Iraq war, ballooning debt, and right-wing social policy have all turned off business leaders—and as fiscal conservatives' support for... More »

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Alan Greenspan • Republican Party • campaign fundraising • Dmeocrats • fiscal conservatives • pro business • Iraq war

Greenspan Attacks Bush, GOP

Former Fed Chair decries Republican economic policies

Sep 15, 07 7:44 AM CDT
(Newser) - Former Fed chairman Alan Greenspan lambastes President Bush and his own party  for disastrous economic policies in a memoir published next week. He criticizes the GOP for abandoning fiscal restraint while it had control of both Congress and the White House, the Wall Street Journal reports. Republicans in Congress, he... More »

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inflation • Federal Reserve • GOP • Alan Greenspan • Republican Party

Greenspan Missed Subprime Crisis Signs

And Bernanke's doing 'an excellent job,' says Fed's former Yoda

Sep 13, 07 3:19 PM CDT
(Newser) - Alan Greenspan didn't see the subprime crunch coming, the former Fed chairman tells CBS' "60 Minutes." Greenspan also gave his successor a pat on the back, saying Ben Bernanke "is doing an excellent job." Some have suggested that Bernanke isn't acting as presciently as his predecessor;... More »

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Ben Bernanke • Federal Reserve • subprime mortgages • Alan Greenspan

Fed Weighs Risky Biz of Rate Cut

Intervention could encourage more risk and trigger bigger crisis

Aug 13, 07 4:03 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Federal Reserve is facing a dilemma as it decides whether to ride to the rescue of  the market by slashing interest rates—and risk encouraging further recklessness and triggering an even worse crisis, reports the Wall Street Journal. The issue is what economists call moral hazard: protecting someone too... More »

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Federal Reserve • economics • Alan Greenspan • recession • Bill Bernanke • deflation • moral hazard • interest rate

China's Stock Market Soars to Record

Greenspan fears a dramatic correction

May 28, 07 8:17 PM CDT
(Newser) - Despite Alan Greenspan’s warning that the market was due for a correction, Shanghai’s stock market index topped 4000 today. So far this year the Chinese stock market has doubled. Since 2006 it has quadrupled. The main driving force behind the surge has been an odd form of democracy. More »

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China • investing • stock market • Chinese stock market • Alan Greenspan • business • equity

Bernanke Keeps Interest Rate Steady

Sees housing crisis as risk, but doesn't see recession

Mar 29, 07 8:15 AM CDT
(Newser) - With inflation creeping up, Fed chairman Ben Bernanke will keep interest rates steady—at least for now, reports the Wall Street Journal. Soft business investment and weakening housing are becoming serious risks, but the long-term outlook is good, Bernanke told Congress yesterday. "The current stance of monetary policy is... More »

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inflation • Ben Bernanke • economics • subprime mortgages • Alan Greenspan • investments • housing • recession • interest rate

Greenspan Sees Recession

Former fed chairman forecasts end of cycle as early as this year

Mar 6, 07 11:04 AM CST
(Newser) - Back when bankers and investors hung on his every word, Alan Greenspan was caution itself in public pronouncements . But yesterday the former chairman  took the rare step of predicting the onset of an out-and-out recession. Speaking via satellite to a business conference in Hong Kong, Greenspan said the US. economy... More »

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investing • Alan Greenspan • money • recession • US economy • budget deficit • financial crisis

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