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Author Canterbery, E. Ray

Title Alan Greenspan : the oracle behind the curtain / by E. Ray Canterbery
Published New Jersey : World Scientific, 2006

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Description 1 online resource (1 volume)
Contents A PERSONAL NOTE; ONWARD; 1 GREENSPAN AND THE MYTH OF HIS PURITY; 2 ADAM SMITH, FREE MARKETS AND THE GREENSPAN STANDARD; 3 WHEN MARKETS HAVE FAILED, GREENSPAN HAS BEEN ON THE SCENE; 4 THE INDEPENDENCE OF ALAN GREENSPAN AND THE FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM; 5 FEDSPEAK AND THE INNOCENT HYPOCRISY OF INDEPENDENCE; 6 WHITE HOUSE DEPENDENCE AND THE HYPOCRISY OF PERSONAL INTERFERENCE; 7 GREENSPANMAIL REDEFINES THE NEW DEMOCRATS; 8 FED AND WHITE HOUSE DEPENDENCE ON WALL STREET INVESTMENT BANKERS; 9 THE FABLE OF THE GOLDILOCKS ECONOMY; 10 THE WOLF AT THE DOOR OF ORDINARY WORKERS
Summary There is an endless supply of rave reviews for Alan Greenspan and the Fed. This is due to Greenspan's political manipulations, the reluctance of politicians to challenge the Federal Reserve, the press corps' willingness to trade glowing reviews for access, and private economists with ambitions of becoming Fed Governors. With Greenspan's announced retirement, the devastating effects of Fed actions are mounting. Even as institutional reforms are suggested, it is shown how they have been blocked by an ideology favored by financial wealth-holders at the expense of wage labor. This thought-p
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Notes English
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Subject Greenspan, Alan, 1926-
SUBJECT Greenspan, Alan, 1926- fast
Subject Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.)
SUBJECT Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.) fast
Subject Government economists -- United States -- Biography
Monetary policy -- United States
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Banks & Banking.
Economic policy
Government economists
Monetary policy
SUBJECT United States -- Economic policy -- 1981-1993. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh92006369
United States -- Economic policy -- 1993-2001. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh92006370
United States -- Economic policy -- 2001-
Subject United States
Genre/Form Biographies
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2005044725
ISBN 9812567607
9789812567604
9789812566065
9812566066