Alan Greenspan

• Dow on its best streak since days of "irrational exuberance"

  By Staff Writer  |  March 15, 2013

  Despite the 10 days of consecutive gains, the Fed won't raise rates until this look like a more long-term recovery.

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  Disability Insurance Observer: Dear Ben

  By Allison Bell  |  October 24, 2012

  He's probably a really nice guy, but he's giving us way too much economic Ritalin.

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  Greenspan to Wall Street: Drop dead

  By Joyce Hanson  |  October 23, 2012

  At SIFMA’s annual meeting in New York, the former Fed chairman advocates letting big banks fail.

• Birthday boasts: 18 predictions that beat the world’s economists (Beat the Press)

  By Staff Writer  |  July 16, 2012

  In a bit of admitted self-indulgence, Dean Baker, co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, points out a few of the times when he was right while a bulk of economists were wrong.

• Poor Shmoon

  By Richard Hoe, ChFC, CLU, AEP  |  July 1, 2012

  Are Americans gluttons for punishment?

• Dust Off the WIN Buttons

  By David A. Saltzman, RHU, DIA  |  June 1, 2012

  Governments have been trying (and failing) to regulate prices in a variety of ways and over a range of commodities for thousands of years.

• The Volcker Rule (The New Yorker)

  By Staff Writer  |  May 14, 2012

  The goal to restore the divide between commercial banking and investment banking by the former chairman of the Federal Reserve.

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  Fed Now Tweeting, but Keep Expectations in Check

  By Martin Crutsinger  |  March 14, 2012

  The Federal Reserve isn't known for its brevity. Now, it has no choice.

• The United States of Inequality (Slate)

  By Staff Writer  |  March 9, 2012

  If income inequality is such a bad thing, then why isn't anyone doing anything about it? Well, no one really knows what causes it.

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  LTCI Watch: What If Taxes Were Illegal?

  By Allison Bell  |  February 3, 2012

  It's interesting to think about what the world might look like if the Internal Revenue Code simply disappeared.