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To: alessandrofiaschi

Next to Cher he is the most overrated.


2 posted on 12/05/2004 10:16:52 PM PST by Digger
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To: Digger
You've got it. A list of Greenspan's proud accomplishments would have to include:

  1. Crashing the market in 1987 by statements overrating the S&L and BCCI crisis's.
  2. Sleeping on the job in the 1990's while the dot.com mania was over-hyped.
  3. Slaughtering a bull market already being corrected in 2000-2001 with a series of ill-timed interest rate hikes to head-off nonexistent inflation.
  4. The current series of interest rate hikes just as recovery is starting to kick-in when the only inflation is due to energy costs and businesses are already skittish about new investment and new hiring.

On the other hand, he has done a great job of transferring more money from the American worker to the international banksters who, after all, are the constituency he really serves.
8 posted on 12/06/2004 4:21:54 AM PST by Vigilanteman (crime would drop like a sprung trapdoor if we brought back good old-fashioned hangings)
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