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Greenspan the “Ex-Maestro”

Posted By Barry Ritholtz On March 21, 2011 @ 10:52 am In Federal Reserve,Really, really bad calls | Comments Disabled

Krugman [1] gives us our QOTD:

“Greenspan is an ex-Maestro; his reputation is pushing up the daisies, it’s gone to meet its maker, it’s joined the choir invisible.

He’s no longer the Man Who Knows; he’s the man who presided over an economy careening to the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression — and who saw no evil, heard no evil, refused to do anything about subprime, insisted that derivatives made the financial system more stable, denied not only that there was a national housing bubble but that such a bubble was even possible.”

I love that . . .

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Previously:
Alan Greenspan on the Dunning–Kruger Effect [2] (March 19, 2011)


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[1] Krugman: http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/03/20/rantings-of-an-ex-maestro/

[2] Alan Greenspan on the Dunning–Kruger Effect: http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2011/03/alan-greenspan-clueless-dolt/

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