Alan Greenspan

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Alan Greenspan

Chairman of the Federal Reserve from 1987 to 2006. He was chairman during both the 1987 stock market crash and the Asian financial crisis in the 1990s. In both circumstances, he saw to it that the Federal Reserve served as a source of liquidity in order to ensure the global economy continued to function. He kept interest rates low during the dot-com bubble of the 1990s. He was criticized during the late 2000s recession for supporting the unfettered free market policies that led to the housing bubble and unregulated derivatives. He became a friend and follower of Ayn Rand in the 1950s and remains controversial today.

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This might be taken as just a bizarre comment, except that, of course, Alan Greenspan had some considerable influence in driving us to the current financial meltdown through his opposition to regulation of derivatives.

Rolling the Dice on Derivatives

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Dr. Alan Greenspan headlines BOMA convention

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Remarks by Chairman Alan Greenspan, "Energy," before the Japan Business Federation, the Japan Chamber of Commerce and Industry, and the Japan Association of Corporate Executives, Tokyo, Japan, October 17, 2005.

Hundred dollar oil, five percent inflation, and the coming recession: why the fed is in trouble

ITEM: The Atlanta Journal-Constitution for February 23 commented: "For a champion of fiscal discipline, Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan is surprisingly tolerant of what passes for restraint nowadays.

The Fed & Alan Greenspan

Alan Greenspan yesterday collects his honorary knighthood from the Queen with his wife Andrea Mitchell at his side and the Duke of Edinburgh, at Balmoral castle in the Scottish Highlands

Knighthood: Leading world economist honoured

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Derivatives: time to take sides

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Distant events impacting senior housing borrowing costs

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Greenspan's four lessons: an important senior Tokyo financial strategist sizes up the last two decades of U.S. monetary policy

Under the gold standard," Alan Greenspan wrote in Ayn Rand's 1966 book Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal, "a free banking system stands as the protector of an economy's stability and balanced growth.