Greenspan: Book Release Day Arrives
I apologize for yet more Greenspan blogging, but today is after all the day
his book is officially released, and there's loads of material out there worth
linking to. Paul
Krugman is on good form, attacking Greenspan's support for Bush's tax cuts,
and he's ably
supported by Dean Baker. Meanwhile, Blake Hounshell rounds
up the exhausting exhaustive Bloomberg coverage.
But it's the interviews with Greenspan in the financial press which the most interesting. In the WSJ, Greenspan provides a useful Greenspanish-to-English autotranslate rule: "lots of froths are equal to a bubble," he says, finally using a word that he would never have uttered in office. And interestingly he's also happy opining on foreign policy, even implying that the US should attempt regime change in Venezuela:
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