Word: alan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...years before the oil crisis, for example, Alan Greenspan, a leading consultant and former chief presidential economic adviser, was warning us about it, joking that King Faisal's picture would soon be on all the oil storage tanks along the New Jersey Turnpike. That instinct proved to be all too prescient." The board's latest predictions are summarized in this week's Economy & Business section. One forecast is not included, though the board is unanimous about it: Economics Editor Loeb is in no danger of an energy shortage...
...decline will kill all chances of reducing the federal budget deficit from $37 billion this year to the $29 billion that Carter projects for the fiscal year beginning in October. The Board of Economists expects the deficit in fiscal 1980 to bulge to $45 billion. In fact, says Alan Greenspan, head of the economic consulting firm of Townsend-Greenspan, "Carter has a better chance of bringing in the budget below $30 billion this fiscal year than next." One reason: tax receipts this year will be up because the economy was much stronger than expected this winter and expenditures will...
...Alan Greenspan would endorse an amendment specifying that "all money bills, budget authority, appropriations and outlays would require a two-thirds vote by both houses of Congress." Trouble is, that would give veto power to one-third of Congress and seriously undermine the principle of majority rule. Yet, while all the ideas have flaws, Greenspan argues: "If the Congress does not respond to what is now in the process of occurring out in the grass roots, we will end up with a constitutional convention, and I think that would be a bad mistake...
Republican Alan Greenspan figured that Carter stands at best a 50% chance of renomination and, if he passes that hurdle, only a 60-40 shot at beating the Republican candidate. Mathematically that would work out to a 30% chance of going all the way. Said Greenspan: "It almost doesn't matter who the Republicans put up. I think the next race is Carter against Carter...
Disappointed crashers may have been responsible for the call, Alan M. Zunamon '79, vice-president of Hasty Pudding Theatricals, said yesterday...