ritholtz.com - 7/9/2009
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Today’s quote of the Day comes forth from 94-year-old economist Paul Samuelson on Alan Greenspan:
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But the trouble is that he had been an Ayn Rander. You can take the boy out of the cult but you can’t take the cult out of the boy.
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via Kedrosky
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An Interview With Paul Samuelson, Part Two
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"An Interview with Paul Samuelson"
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An Interview With Paul Samuelson, Part One, by Conor Clarke : ...Paul
Samuelson ... has a long list of accomplishments -- A John Bates Clark Medal, a
Nobel Prize -- that I won't try to recap here. But by ...
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nakedcapitalism.com 5/21/2009 —
You have to give former Fed chairman Alan Greenspan credit for having no shame. Well, he did once look a bit rattled before Congress for about five minutes and 'fessed up it never occurred to him that people would be so greedy as to run ...
DeLong: Sympathy for Greenspan
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interest rates low after the collapse of the dot.com bubble:
Sympathy for Greenspan, by J. Bradford DeLong, Commentary, Project Syndicate :
In the circles in which I ...
An Interview With Paul Samuelson, Part One
correspondents.theatlantic.com 6/17/2009 — 275 paul samuelson.png I've spent the last six months, off and on, trying to interview Paul Samuelson. Samuelson has a long list of accomplishments -- A John Bates Clark Medal, a Nobel Prize -- that I won't try to recap here. But by most accounts he ...
Greenspan Put
investopedia.com 10/13/2008 — A description of the perceived attempt of then-chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, Alan Greenspan, of propping up the securities markets by lowering interest rates and thereby helping money flow into the markets. Investors assumed that they would ...
Greenspan Says Banks Still Have a ‘Large’ Capital Requirement
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On Greenspan
calculatedrisk.blogspot.com 10/24/2008 — I've received numerous emails concerning Greenspan's testimony today. Greenspan has been criticized for keeping rates too low (see CNN: Culprits of the Collapse), however his far larger mistake was opposing oversight when many people were pointing out ...
Greenspan: Nationalize The Banks
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