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...“We’ve been here before,” said macro strategist Benjamin Picton at Rabobank....
...In 1996, Alan Greenspan, then Federal Reserve chairman described the stock market as experiencing “irrational exuberance”, a warning that frequently invited contempt from bullish investors until the party...
...The journal collects essays by Dean Baker, Benjamin Friedman and Jason Furman, as well as an introduction by Jared Bernstein, who acts as convener of the collection....
...Here’s the reality: Cape was similarly high in December 1996, inspiring former Fed head Alan Greenspan’s “irrational exuberance” warning....
...One of my favourite responses came from Benjamin Mueller of Keble College, Oxford. He noted that the winning answer in 1997 was 13....
...We are reminded of all this because new research from Benjamin Keys, Tomasz Piskorski, Amit Seru, and Vincent Yao shows that borrowers who were lucky enough to take out these types of debts in the mid-2000s...
...As for politicians, I think the greatest promoter of entrepreneurs was Benjamin Franklin....
...Subsequently, Alan Greenspan brought inflation to an acceptable target around 2 per cent. With inflation apparently dead, the time had come to guard against deflation....
...Even rap stars waved wads of euros instead of the usual “Benjamins” – $100 bills....
...Benjamin Franklin, a leading figure of the 18th-century enlightenment, advocated a rational approach to decision- making....
...“You had these images in the 1930s of executives jumping out of skyscrapers,” Benjamin Friedman, the US academic, said recently. However, the current pattern is very different....
...One of the strengths of Lords of Finance is that it demonstrates that central bankers have never been the heroic figures of omniscient authority that Alan Greenspan was for some years, absurdly, depicted...
...Even Alan Greenspan, the former Federal Reserve chairman, has admitted that investors were fooled about the risks of mortgage-backed securities....
...He draws his title from Benjamin Graham, the investment theorist, who coined the term “Mr Market” in the 1930s....
...Nine Nights By Bernardo CarvalhoTranslated by Benjamin Moser Vintage £7.99, 224 pages FT bookshop price: £6.39 Why did an American ethnographer commit suicide on an Amazonian research trip?...
...Mr Kahn selected a copper stock to sell partly on the advice of Benjamin Graham, whose finance classes he was attending at Columbia University....
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