Word: greenspans
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Those who think it is too close are pinning their hopes on the Federal Reserve Board to cool the economy by raising interest rates more than bond traders already have. But the Fed at a meeting last week decided for the moment to do nothing. One reason: Chairman Alan Greenspan is not at all the antigrowth fanatic he has often been called. He is known to believe the key signals of inflationary danger are bottlenecks in the economy: shortages of labor or goods that drive up wages and prices. Apparently he sees no conclusive signs yet that such bottlenecks...
What about Alan Greenspan, chairman of the Federal Reserve Board? As the man most responsible for adjusting interest rates, the magic numbers that underlie the whole world of getting and spending, he can certainly be said to influence events. Refrigerator sales and presidential approval ratings move when he moves. But Paul Krugman, a professor of economics at Stanford, argues that because Greenspan has not translated his thinking into the published theorizing that directs further thinking among other economists, he has no following, no Greenspanians. "There are people [at the Fed] who have enormous power," says Krugman. "But they probably have...
...funds are actually an accounting figment. Using them would increase the deficit or force greater cuts in other programs. Budget Committee chairman John Kasich and Appropriations chairman Bob Livingston are vehemently opposed. Attempts by Newt Gingrich to reconcile them and Shuster have come to naught. Meanwhile, Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan broke with his custom of staying neutral to advise against passage...
...villainy--trade deals, for instance, or the effort to push the Mexican bailout through Congress--and he's apt to put a Jewish name at the scene of the crime. His favorites are Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin, the investment-banking firm of Goldman, Sachs and Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan. Buchanan insists he's not sending out an anti-Semitic signal. Somehow anti-Semites are hearing it anyway. Vladimir Zhirinovsky, the vaudeville-ready Russian presidential contender, was moved to send Buchanan fraternal greetings last week and to suggest that they could cooperate to deport Jews from both...
...horrors (the slaughter of the Armenians, Stalin's starvation of the Ukrainian kulaks, the Hitler Holocaust) have begun with a demonization of others. Buchanan has a genius for techniques that bundle his enemies together and subtly satanize them. His litany of Jewish villain names (ticking off "Goldman, Sachs...Greenspan" as if they were the Elders of Zion) is slyly anti-Semitic; he uses a tone of barroom xenophobia on "Jose," his multipurpose Mexican bashee. He says, "Listen, Mr. Hashimoto [the Japanese Prime Minister]," as if he meant "Mr. Tojo." Buchanan is almost as brilliant at populist bullying as George Wallace...