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RamboLiberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-23-08 12:52 AM
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Greenspan's Bubbles: The Age of Ignorance at the Federal Reserve
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No matter who you are-investor, trader, homeowner, 401(k) holder, or CEO-you are bound to feel the impact of Alan Greenspan's “Age of Ignorance” for years to come.

According to MSN Money columnist William A. Fleckenstein, Greenspan's nearly 19-year career as Federal Reserve Chairman is even worse than anyone imagined. Labeled “Mr. Bubble” by the New York Times, Greenspan was nothing less than a serial bubble blower with a long history of bad decision-making. His famous “Greenspan Put” fueled the perception of a Goldilocks economy-but, as this explosive exposé reveals, the bear has finally caught up with Goldilocks.

Using transcripts of Greenspan's FOMC meetings as well as testimony before Congress, this eye-opening book delivers a timeline of his most devastating mistakes and weaves together the connection between every economic calamity of the past 19 years:

The stock market crash of 1987
The Savings & Loan crisis
The collapse of Long Term Capital Management
The tech bubble of 2000
The feared Y2K disaster
The credit bubble and real estate crisis of 2007
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Jim__ Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-23-08 09:38 AM
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1. That's definitely a book I want to read.
Thanks for posting this.
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