[ExI] How slow is capitalism?

BillK pharos at gmail.com
Mon May 2 07:13:51 UTC 2011


On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 7:58 AM, Kelly Anderson  wrote:
> Greenspan served as Chairman of the Federal Reserve of the United
> States from 1987 to 2006. Whether he implemented Mieses friendly
> policies is potentially up for debate. What is not as clear to me is
> how you can blame him for the stuff that has happened mostly since
> 2006 which seems clearly more problematic than that which happened
> before. He kept the economy going through Democratic and Republican
> administrations with quite a bit of stability.
>
>

There are thousands of articles criticising Greenspan's record.
His career was de-regulated bubble after bubble, building up to the
collapse in 2007.

Start with Wikipedia for a quick summary of the disaster that was Greenspan.
<https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Alan_Greenspan>


BillK



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