Alan Greenspan - Salon.com http://dir.salon.com/topics/alan_greenspan/?source=rss&aim=alan_greenspan en-us Copyright 2007 Salon.com. Tue, 18 Mar 2008 04:03:00 PDT The crash in Republican economics By Andrew Leonard Tue, 18 Mar 2008 04:03:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2008/03/18/economy/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2008/03/18/economy/index.html?source=rss Not even George W. Bush or Alan Greenspan can sugarcoat America's financial meltdown. Will the next president seize the chance to rethink how we run our economy? Alan Greenspan blames Wall Street By Andrew Leonard Tue, 18 Mar 2008 04:03:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2008/10/23/greenspan_blames_wall_street/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2008/10/23/greenspan_blames_wall_street/index.html?source=rss Who is responsible for the financial crisis? Hint: Not poor people The Bateman Interviews: Can I live with you, Alan Greenspan? Tue, 18 Mar 2008 04:03:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/ent/video_dog/comedy/2008/04/11/bateman_greenspan/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/ent/video_dog/comedy/2008/04/11/bateman_greenspan/index.html?source=rss Our host loses his home to the subprime mortgage crisis and tries to move in with the former Fed chairman. The cold price of hot blood By Gary Kamiya Tue, 18 Mar 2008 04:03:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/kamiya/2008/03/04/trillion_dollar_war/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/kamiya/2008/03/04/trillion_dollar_war/index.html?source=rss A devastating new book reveals that Iraq will cost the U.S. at least $3 trillion. Will Americans check their pocketbooks the next time a president tries to sell them on a cheap, glorious war? The deficit trap By James K. Galbraith Tue, 18 Mar 2008 04:03:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2005/03/21/greenspan_deficits/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2005/03/21/greenspan_deficits/index.html?source=rss Instead of accepting Greenspan's false argument that deficits will undermine Social Security, Democrats should actually call for more federal borrowing -- and spend the money on rebuilding America. Greenspan: "This is really quite unfair" By Andrew Leonard Tue, 18 Mar 2008 04:03:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2008/04/08/alan_greenspan_s_legacy/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2008/04/08/alan_greenspan_s_legacy/index.html?source=rss The Maestro responds with the most detail yet to the accusation that he is responsible for the housing boom and bust. Who killed global capitalism? By Andrew Leonard Tue, 18 Mar 2008 04:03:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2008/03/26/greenspan_and_capitalism/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2008/03/26/greenspan_and_capitalism/index.html?source=rss A "lost decade" for stocks? The "high water mark" of financial deregulation? Who pulled the trigger? Alan Greenspan on the mortgage crisis: "I didn't do it!" Tue, 18 Mar 2008 04:03:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2007/12/12/greenspan_didn_t_do_it/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2007/12/12/greenspan_didn_t_do_it/index.html?source=rss The end of the Cold War is the real villain, declares the Maestro. Now the U.S. no longer controls its own financial destiny Rate cut bonanza: Does the next bubble start here? By Andrew Leonard Tue, 18 Mar 2008 04:03:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2007/09/18/rate_cut/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2007/09/18/rate_cut/index.html?source=rss Get out the ticker tape for a Wall Street parade. "Helicopter Ben" Bernanke has shown his true colors. Invasion Greenspan By Andrew Leonard Tue, 18 Mar 2008 04:03:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2007/09/17/greenspan_book/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2007/09/17/greenspan_book/index.html?source=rss Why is a book promotion blitz getting the same royal treatment his utterances as Fed chairman received? Is the Wall Street Journal carrying Ben Bernanke's water? By Andrew Leonard Tue, 18 Mar 2008 04:03:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2007/08/30/greg_ip/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2007/08/30/greg_ip/index.html?source=rss Kremlinology, 21st century style; the blogosphere watches the Fed watchers. Schieffer was wrong, Kerry was right By James K. Galbraith Tue, 18 Mar 2008 04:03:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2004/10/14/social_security/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2004/10/14/social_security/index.html?source=rss Contrary to the moderator's suggestion in the third debate, Social Security is not running out of money. And the Democratic candidate wasn't pandering when he said privatizing it would be disastrous. Social Security scare campaign By James K. Galbraith Tue, 18 Mar 2008 04:03:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2004/08/31/elderly/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2004/08/31/elderly/index.html?source=rss Lending his voice to the privatization lobby, Alan Greenspan warns that the U.S. can no longer care for its elderly. Length matters By James K. Galbraith Tue, 18 Mar 2008 04:03:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2004/07/07/job_growth/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2004/07/07/job_growth/index.html?source=rss While pundits sugarcoat the economy, the real issue is simple: Too many people have been out of work for too long. Squeezing workers By James K. Galbraith Tue, 18 Mar 2008 04:03:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2004/06/28/inflation/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2004/06/28/inflation/index.html?source=rss The latest economic numbers are hard to be optimistic about, especially since the Bush administration's solutions are likely to further increase corporate profits, not jobs and wages. The man who stayed too long By James K. Galbraith Tue, 18 Mar 2008 04:03:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2004/05/20/stagflation/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2004/05/20/stagflation/index.html?source=rss Don't believe the headline writers -- higher interest rates won't beat inflation. But Alan Greenspan's successor might. Wacko in Waco By Arianna Huffington Tue, 18 Mar 2008 04:03:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/news/col/huff/2002/08/16/waco/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/col/huff/2002/08/16/waco/index.html?source=rss At their summer camp economic summit, Bushians find comfort by withdrawing from a confusing, complicated and unfriendly world. Who needs the new economy? By Herman M. Schwartz and Aida A. Hozic Tue, 18 Mar 2008 04:03:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2001/03/16/schwartz/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2001/03/16/schwartz/index.html?source=rss Bush's bias toward industrial dinosaurs is strangling America's high-tech-driven growth. How Alan Greenspan runs the world By Damien Cave Tue, 18 Mar 2008 04:03:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2001/01/10/greenspan/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2001/01/10/greenspan/index.html?source=rss Bob Woodward, author of a new book on the Federal Reserve chairman, explains the "maestro's" search for an economic soft landing. Fool's gold By Barrie Walsh Tue, 18 Mar 2008 04:03:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/business/feature/2000/08/09/gold/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/business/feature/2000/08/09/gold/index.html?source=rss How I bought into a sucker's scheme. It's a bubble, all right! By Thomas Scoville Tue, 18 Mar 2008 04:03:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/tech/books/2000/05/02/irrational_exuberance/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/books/2000/05/02/irrational_exuberance/index.html?source=rss In "Irrational Exuberance," Robert Shiller credits investors' folly with keeping the bull market on its feet. Letters to the editor Tue, 18 Mar 2008 04:03:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/letters/2000/04/19/elian/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/letters/2000/04/19/elian/index.html?source=rss Fighting for Elian Plus: In Alan Greenspan we trust; medical museum story needs checkup. Alan Greenspan's nightmare By Ian Williams Tue, 18 Mar 2008 04:03:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2000/04/17/greenspan/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2000/04/17/greenspan/index.html?source=rss His paranoia about inflation helped send world markets into free fall last week. The invisible poor appear By Arianna Huffington Tue, 18 Mar 2008 04:03:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2000/04/04/poor/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2000/04/04/poor/index.html?source=rss Those who have not yet felt the "permanent boom" of the '90s are starting to emerge on the national radar, just as the economy shows signs of slowing down. Flowergate! By Amy Reiter Tue, 18 Mar 2008 04:03:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/people/col/reit/2000/03/02/npwed/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/people/col/reit/2000/03/02/npwed/index.html?source=rss MSNBC pundit Norah O'Donnell plucks up! Plus: Porn stars do it for democracy. And: Jennifer Lopez's dress voted most popular. Butt refuses to comment.