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...debt so as to avoid the need to repay it. The administration claims that $1.2 trillion of debt is locked up in bonds that cannot be paid off for at least a decade without incurring heavy penalties. However, both the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) and Federal Reserve Chair Alan Greenspan have estimated that this figure is too high by more than $400 billion. It is inexcusable for the Bush administration to declare victory and go home when billions in redeemable debt lie unpaid...
President-elect George W. Bush may be relatively new to Washington, but when he came to town Monday with a $1.3 trillion across-the-board tax cut on his mind, he knew just the man whose ring he had to kiss first: Alan Greenspan, pontiff of the U.S. economy...
...photo-op, Bush started spreading the love, calling the Fed chairman a "distinguished, thoughtful economist." And when reporters started sniffing for discord, Bush replied, "One of the things I'm certain that I should not do as President-elect is to try and put words in the mouth of Alan Greenspan...
...reading the papers or watching the news in the last few months knows that, economically speaking, there's something rotten in the state of Denmark. Pundits who once breathlessly exhorted the virtues of the New Economy now sound the alarm. "Danger ahead," they say. Some Really Smart People, like Alan Greenspan, have even begun cautiously dusting off that dreaded R-word from the early '90s: recession...
...that you read in the press. Everyone has their own interest in mind, and the same person who's trashing tech stocks on CNBC has probably shorted the NASDAQ behind the scenes. What we have now is a small correction, and anyone who says otherwise either knows more than Alan Greenspan--who remains cautiously optimistic-- or has got a horse to sell...