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Alan Greenspan shouldn't be surprised if perfect strangers insist on buying him a beer. Widely credited with being the architect of the most sustained growth cycle in the history of the U.S. economy, the Federal Reserve chairman on Tuesday welcomed the record-making 107th month of robust economic health. It's not only its length, of course, that has been remarkable. The boom, marked by rising income, skyrocketing consumer confidence and general expansion, has also remained notably unmarred by the specter of inflation. Wages have escaped the pressure usually placed on them by a booming economy, with increased productivity...
...supply-side tax cuts by claiming the expansion as a product of Reagan-era tax policies. But economies expand and contract according to their own rules - yes, folks, even Alan Greenspan himself would tell you that his job is closer to that of a janitor than of an architect - and aren't easily swayed to the whims of politicians. Although most candidates are quite happy to discuss how to spend the budget surpluses that will, at least according to the more optimistic accountants, be generated by the boom, the spoilsport questions of what to do when the party ends simply...
...Want to go to the padded cell?" the guard asks testily. One guest, an architect who has vowed to break out of the jail, is already pacing one of the three padded cells reserved for "noncompliants." Matthew shakes his head and goes to get fingerprinted...
Figuring how to beat the competition without setting off the alarm at Justice is the job of Microsoft's newly appointed chief software architect. His name: Bill Gates...
...Architect Renzo Piano's preliminary sketches for the possible project were also included in the letter to neighbors...