The Reckoning - Taking Hard New Look at a Greenspan Legacy - Series

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How Alan Greenspan Wrecked The Economy
Published 10/9/2008 at Radar: Fresh Intelligence Blog
... , but it bears repeating: If you only read one story this week about the financial crisis, read Peter Goodman 's extraordinary takedown of Alan Greenspan in today's New York Times . Among the highlights: While Warren Buffett and and Felix Rohatyn were calling derivatives "financial weapons of mass destruction" and potential "hydrogen bombs", Greenspan was collaborating with Robert Rubin and Larry Summers during the Clinton administration to prevent all efforts to regulate them. Brooksley E. Born , the former head of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, a ...

Marty Kaplan: Alan Shrugged
Published 10/14/2008 by Marty Kaplan at Huffington Post Entertainment Blog
... A quite different explanation comes from a man to whom Bush gave the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and who is the intellectual parent of this collapse: Alan Greenspan. ...