But Greenspan Said So
Margaret O'Brien Steinfels May 17, 2010 - 9:58am
How Markets Fail
The Logic of Economic Calamities
John Cassidy
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $28, 390 pp.
If Alan Greenspan got the economy wrong, what chance was there for the rest of us? His aura as a financial wiz outshone dissenting economists who questioned the novel financing schemes inflating the housing market (those dissenters included colleagues at the Federal Reserve, where he was chairman from 1987 to 2006). Though there were multiple warning signs, Greenspan was surprised when the bubble finally burst and major financial institutions began to collapse—and with them the global...
The remainder of this article is only available to paid subscribers.
Print subscribers to Commonweal are entitled to free access to all premium online content. Click here to purchase a print subscription, or if you’re already a print subscriber, register now for premium access.
Online-only subscriptions provide access to all premium online articles for just $34/year. Click here to subscribe.
Registered users, please log in below:
Topics:
Printer-friendly version
Send by email