Alan Greenspan

Frederick Sheehan is the author of Panderer to Power: The Untold Story of How Alan Greenspan Enriched Wall Street and Left a Legacy of Recession  (McGraw-Hill, 2009). We wince at congressional ineptitude but in one category…

The Chris Whalen interview on CNBC has me thinking about the Federal Reserve's policy dilemma right now. If you haven't seen his comments on interest rates, read my post Roubini, Bremmer and Whalen: Fixing the Financial System and Double…

Frederick Sheehan is the author of Panderer to Power: The Untold Story of How Alan Greenspan Enriched Wall Street and Left a Legacy of Recession (McGraw-Hill, 2009). (Reuters) – "Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Thursday…

Frederick Sheehan is the author of Panderer to Power: The Untold Story of How Alan Greenspan Enriched Wall Street and Left a Legacy of Recession (McGraw-Hill, 2009). Investing in stocks is marketed as believing in America. Imbedded is the…

Frederick Sheehan is the author of Panderer to Power: The Untold Story of How Alan Greenspan Enriched Wall Street and Left a Legacy of Recession  (McGraw-Hill, 2009). A speech delivered at the Ludwig von Mises Institute Conference:…

Here's something I want to run by you on behavioural economics and the way economic issues are being debated in the blogosphere. We are witnessing an implosion of long-held belief structures that go the core of how we believed our economic…

Frederick Sheehan is the author of Panderer to Power: The Untold Story of How Alan Greenspan Enriched Wall Street and Left a Legacy of Recession (McGraw-Hill, 2009). The Federal Reserve releases transcripts of the Federal Open Market…

Frederick Sheehan is the author of Panderer to Power: The Untold Story of How Alan Greenspan Enriched Wall Street and Left a Legacy of Recession (McGraw-Hill, 2009). Alan Greenspan's reputation has a whiff of terminal decline after his…

Frederick Sheehan is the author of Panderer to Power: The Untold Story of How Alan Greenspan Enriched Wall Street and Left a Legacy of Recession (McGraw-Hill, 2009). April 7 (Bloomberg) -- Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan…

Just as an update to my post Greenspan: Hate Him, Hate Him, here is Jim Grant saying similar things. Update: Here is a new longer version of the video of Grant.