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Search results for "Alan Greenspan" ...
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"House of Cards"
In this investigation, CNBC takes a look at the beginnings of the "global economic collapse." After 9/11, the U.S. government "dropped interest rates" in an attempt to breathe new life into the economy. The investigation reveals how Wall Street took on unstable mortgages to "re-package it and sell it to investors." This story includes personal accounts from home buyers, mortgage brokers, bankers and more.
Tags: hedge-fund; housing market; economic collapse; recession; Wall Street; George W. Bush; Alan Greenspan; Henry Paulson; bailouts; bankrupt; credit crisis
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Do Congressional Hearings Still Matter?, They Still Make a Difference, A Personal Note on Congressional Hearings, A Day in the Life of a Committee, The Changing Role of the Committee
A World & I three-story special report examines the importance of congressional hearings over the decades after the World War II and today. The main story in the package looks at the role that hearings played in political scandals, discussions of seminal laws, and celebrity showcases. The article also provides insights on how and when some today's politicians - Bill Clinton and his wife amongst them - had their first experience with congressional hearings. Another story reports on the daily work of the Joint Economic Committee, and reveals the mechanisms through which it can impact world financial markets. A third story focuses on the diminishing importance of committees to the legislative process, and the increase of partisanship that further undermines the committee system. "Committees are likely to remain important, but they will become increasingly irrelevant from the standpoint of legislation," the special report concludes.
Tags: Marshall plan; Nixon; Watergate; Lyndon Johnson; presidents; Carter; treaties; public support; Alan Greenspan; Congress Senate
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The Three Marketeers
Although the U.S. economy has been nothing but sunshine, it has been a terrifying year in world markets. So far, the U.S. has dodged these bullets, but the danger to its economy is far from over. In late-night phone calls, in marathon meetings and over bagels, three men - Robert Rubin, Alan Greenspan and Larry Summers - are working to stop what has become a plague of economic panic. By fighting off one collapse after another - and defending their economic policy from political meddling - the three men have so far protected American growth, making investors deliriously, perhaps delusionally, happy in the process.
Tags: Stock market; Feds; Treasury; Federal Reserve
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Politics for the really cool
There is a new 'movement' of Cryptolibertarians who sell cryptographic software to non-governmental organizations. They see encryption technology as the weaponry for a bloodless revolution against the government
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Worth magazine investigates the life, work, and economic philosophies of Alan Greenspan, Chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank. Greenspan believes others should butt out and let him run the world's economy. His mentor, Ayn Rand, agrees, but others find the idea troubling. (May 1995)
Tags: Lewis Beyond economics; beyond politics; beyond accountability Free-market economics 14 pgs.
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The Nation's reports on Bill Clinton's reappointment of Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan. That Clinton would do this, despite all the unnescessary pain Greenspan has inflicted on the nation's economy on his mission to destroy inflation, is not surprising. The Nation feels its exactly what should be expected from Clinton. (March 11, 1996)
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Rolling Stone looks at the state of health of the nation's banking system in light of the savings and loan scandal; finds that an alarming number of banks are in the danger zone--still solvent but critically short of capital; Congress gave the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and the Federal Reserve extreme powers to deal with the possible crisis, Feb. 20, 1992.