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WASHINGTON, D.C.: Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan told the Senate Finance Committee Thursday that the Consumer Price Index should be adjusted downward, and called for the creation of an independent commission to monitor future increases. Greenspan, who has long pushed for an adjustment to the CPI, told Senators he fully agreed with a December report that the index was overestimating inflation by 1.1 percentage points annually, an error that will cost the government $1 trillion over the next 12 years in cost-of-living increases and lost tax revenue. "Greenspan has been pushing for an adjustment to the CPI for years...
...official representative is only partially an advocate. And there is no accountability, since the Board's decisions are not publicized in any way. In short, the Ad Board is a civil libertarian's nightmare. Small wonder, then, that no less an authority than Frank furter Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz once told The Crimson that he "would be insulting Kangaroos by calling [the Ad Board] a kangaroo court...
...Alan Henney likes to listen. "I primarily listen to police, fire, the Federal Government and some business users," says the 29-year-old graduate student, who lives with his parents in suburban Maryland. "The Park Police, the Secret Service, Smithsonian security, the Federal Protective Service, the U.S. marshals, the Drug Enforcement Administration." He pauses. "The shops at Union Station, campus security, building security officers, the security guards at Fort Lincoln Cemetery...
This year, she published two textbooks in conjunction with noted historian Alan Brinkley...
...BOURSE WHISPERER AWARD: Alan Greenspan, for sending tremors through world stock markets...