Topic: Alan Greenspan
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. political parties on Sunday traded blame for the country's loss of its top-tier AAA credit rating from Standard & Poor's, raising doubts lawmakers can still find a common ground to solve the country's debt problem.S&P on Friday cut ...
/u-s-house-of-representatives" title="U.S. House of Representatives">House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform in October 23, 2008, former Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan referred to the financial market crisis as a " " Greenspan admitted his partial accountability for the crisis, describing his "shock" ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate may begin formal debate on a controversial financial reform bill the third week in April, industry and congressional sources said on Friday.Democrats on the Senate Banking Committee already passed the hefty bill, but now they must ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan on Thursday endorsed a proposed bipartisan commission to help make the tough calls needed to get the spiraling and record U.S. debt under control.Testifying before the Senate Homeland Security Committee, Greenspan warned that ...
In testimony before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform today, Alan Greenspan accepts partial responsibility for the housing bubble and ensuing credit crisis. " Greenspan testifies before lawmakers alongside former Treasury and Securities and Exchange Commission officials. Sheila Bair, FDIC ...
An introduction is presented to various articles in the issue, including one by Roger Scruton on demography, by Jeff Emanuel on the Iraq War, and by Robert Novak on Alan Greenspan's memoir. But population, says TAS contributing editor and columnist Roger Scruton, ...
What is inflation, how does it impact the global economy and markets, and what conclusions can investors take? An interesting word exchange happened a few years ago when US Representative Ron Paul asked Federal Reserve Chairman, Alan Greenspan, what he considered to ...
September 17 2007A plane carrying at least 128 passengers, mostly foreign tourists, crashed down in Thailand, while landing in heavy rain.  Rescuers fought flames to evacuate survivors, though despite efforts, 91 are confirmed dead, and 40 others remain missing.  The survivors, including ...
Alan Greenspan is "one of the biggest political hacks in Washington" declared Democratic Senate Leader Harry Reid this week to Judy Woodruff of CNN. Alan Greenspan is Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board (FRB). Dr. Greenspan served on advisory boards for Presidents ...
It's not very often that Brad DeLong and Paul Krugman find themselves epitomizing opposite sides of an issue, but DeLong seems to have become Alan Greenspan's apologist in chief even as Krugman sticks the knife in to the Maestro today. In his ...