by
Nico Isaac
4/9/2008 4:30:00 PM
No one said it was going to be easy. But this is ridiculous. In order to stay on the trail of the U.S. Treasury market, the powers that be have one word of advise: FOLLOW the mainstream “experts.” What they don’t tell you is: The path the “experts” blaze has more switchbacks than San Francisco’s famed Lombard Street.
Filed Under:
U.S. Treasuries, 10-year note, bonds, yields, Federal Reserve, rate cuts, Greenspan, TLT, FOMC
Category:
Interest Rates
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by
Robert Folsom
3/6/2008 6:00:00 PM
The Economist magazine published a favorable review today of a book about the housing market crisis, and one comment from the review kind of jumped off the page: "The story has no single villain, but Alan Greenspan comes close. Under him, the Federal Reserve fuelled the housing boom by sharply cutting the cost of short-term money." So, from "Maestro" to "Villain" -- how's that for a reversal of fortune?
Filed Under:
banking, Fed, Federal Reserve, Greenspan, personal finance, recession, Wall Street
Category:
Economy
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by
Susan C. Walker
12/12/2007 5:30:00 PM
Here's a tribute to the Grinch Who Stole the Economy, Alan Greenspan, who wrote about the credit crunch in a commentary piece today: "The crisis was thus an accident waiting to happen."
Filed Under:
Grinch, Economy, Greenspan
Category:
Economy
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