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...Throughout most of their tenures Paul Volcker and Alan Greenspan advocated deficit reduction and balanced budgets, even though the latter gave guarded approval to George W Bush’s tax cuts....
...That is partly because Mr Powell has forged a close working relationship with Steven Mnuchin, the Treasury secretary....
...MetLife has announced Michel Khalaf will become chief executive, replacing Steven Kandarian, who will retire after eight years running the large, diversified US insurer....
...Steven Mnuchin, the Treasury secretary, declined to criticise the central bank this week, saying what was happening in the market was a “normal correction”....
...In late 2005 Alan Greenspan assured Congress that the bond market’s ability to predict a recession wasn’t what it used to be....
...(Alan Greenspan argued against that theory back in 1995 and was proved correct shortly thereafter.) We have a few thoughts....
...Yellen’s rule appeared from the outside to be a collegial one — especially by comparison with that of the dictatorial Alan Greenspan, under whom Yellen served in the 1990s and 2000s....
...Related links: SEC to Withdraw Order Granting Steven Rattner’s Return to Wall Street — WSJ The New York Times and the rehabilitation of Steven Rattner — Columbia Journalism Review...
...Alan Greenspan in his later years managed to make 25bp rises such a foregone conclusion that afternoons would pass off with nothing to disturb the placidity of the markets, even though the Fed had actually...
...This was unambiguously positive but Steven Blitz of Lombard Street Research points to the impact of ecommerce....
...Related links: The maddening task of measuring the “term premium” – FT Alphaville Greenspan’s bogus “conundrum” – FT Alphaville...
...Sheelah Kolhatkar’s Black Edge describes how Steven Cohen’s former hedge fund, SAC Capital, built its Wall Street dominance before facing insider trading charges....
...Furthermore, there are signs that regulatory fatigue may be developing in those countries that were devastated by the GFC – especially in the US, where the Treasury Department under Steven Mnuchin seems...
...As succinctly stated by economic commentator Steven Landsburg, Modern humans first emerged about 100,000 years ago. For the next 99,800 years or so, nothing happened. Well, not quite nothing....
...Part of the optimism behind Friday’s payroll numbers, says Citigroup’s Steven Englander, is because “there may be some unwind of the seasonal issues that have consistently affected NFP data in August and...
...Alan Greenspan 40....
...Steven Major is global head of fixed income research at HSBC...
...Related links: Greenspan’s dilemma revived - FT Alphaville Greenspan’s dilemma becomes Yellen’s dilemma - FT Alphaville...
...(“Hi Simon, Steven Spielberg here. I loved your column! Can we make it into a movie?”) My colleagues Tim Harford and Lucy Kellaway have recently addressed the problem of email....
...’s chairmanship by Steven K....
...Alan Greenspan, of the Fed, opted to speak in Delphic riddles....
...We particularly enjoyed this opinion piece by Steven Levy at Wired Magazine on what he described as the emerging “patent problem“....
...Steve Greenspan at United Technologies, the defence and technology company, runs 70 per cent of all his litigation on an alternative fee arrangement....
...But before we get too carried away with the US government’s determination to save US housing — here’s an alternative point of view, courtesy of Deutsche Bank’s Steven Abrahams....
...Alan Greenspan, the former Federal Reserve chairman, said this month that the US economy could even begin to contract if home prices declined....
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