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...Brad DeLong: Well, starting in 1870, history changed into a very different register....
...Ronald Reagan reappointed Paul Volcker, Bill Clinton renewed Alan Greenspan’s position twice, and Barack Obama tapped Ben Bernanke for another round during the financial crisis....
...(Alan Greenspan argued against that theory back in 1995 and was proved correct shortly thereafter.) We have a few thoughts....
...Last year’s winner was Sebastian Mallaby for his biography of Alan Greenspan, The Man Who Knew. Books on finance and economics occupy a large section of this year’s prize bookshelf....
...Another polymath, Brad DeLong (former Clinton staffer and tireless scourge of rightwing bunkum), had spent some minutes producing a few hundred words on “the intellectual role of the economist in public...
...Other readables A video is now available of my conversation with Sebastian Mallaby at the Jewish Book Week about his book on Alan Greenspan....
...One of the most novel arguments came from Congressman Brad Sherman, who in a rambunctious hearing on Capitol Hill last month said that if the Federal Reserve chair acted in December, she risked displeasing...
...Brad DeLong has a good dissection of Solow’s argument on the 1970s debate about whether jobs could be traded off for inflation, as well as a fascinating round-up of commentary by others, which includes the...
...Numbers news Brad DeLong points out that when the stock market dropped by a quarter in 1987, Alan Greenspan made interest rates go down by . . . two percentage points!...
...Alan Greenspan 40....
...– Brad DeLong Mortgage picture brightens for banks – John Carney Yellen inherits Greenspan’s conundrum – Matt Boesler Fed is pushing and pulling on rates riddle – Min Zeng...
...The vignette related by Blinder is one example, and remember also that she threw down with Greenspan in the mid-1990s about the advantages of maintaining a positive inflation target rather than bringing...
...Bush in the summer of 2005, when the native of tiny Dillon, South Carolina, was being considered to replace legendary Fed chair Alan Greenspan....
...- Ex maestro Greenspan attacks policy activism in the US. - Berkeley Prof Brad DeLong says Greenspan is wrong. - Paul Krugman on why economists disagree about the stimulus….....
...Alan Greenspan, former chairman of the Federal Reserve, argues that the decline in the share of liquid cash flow that US companies choose to allocate to illiquid capital investment stems from uncertainty...
...Not quite as interesting as a shirtless Brad Pitt then. But there is that bit about a heavyweight German agenda being pushed within the Task Force....
...As Jon Hilsenrath, Sudeep Reddy and David Wessel noted last month on Brad DeLong’s blog, Bernanke’s reputation on Wall Street “has ebbed and flowed”....
...Greenspan, an early investor in MySpace....
...“Almost certainly, there will be a forensic examination of what happened to AIG,” Brad Miller, a Democrat politician, said. Mr Dinallo’s knowledge of CDOs is likely to be tested further....
...Brad Greenspan, who was an early investor in MySpace, the social networking site later acquired by News Corp, published an open letter to Dow Jones shareholders on Friday that outlined a plan to boost the...
...The latest white knight combination has Los Angeles billionaire Ron Burkle, who has already explored a tentative union-backed alternative buyout plan, joining now with Brad Greenspan, the founder of MySpace...
...Reuters, meanwhile, reports that internet entrepreneur Brad Greenspan said he had the support of five investor groups interested in buying a stake in Dow Jones....
...Supermarket magnate Ron Burkle and internet entrepreneur Brad Greenspan also teamed up briefly to consider an offer for the company....
...On Friday, Brad Greenspan, an internet entrepreneur proposed a leveraged recapitalisation plan that would allow some family members to buy out others....
...Dow Jones representatives met last week with two other potential suitors – Ron Burkle, the California supermarket magnate, and Brad Greenspan, an early investor in MySpace....
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