MetaFilter posts tagged with Greenspan

The Vending Machine God and the Housing Bubble

jaimev — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 16:16:01 -0800

Was the housing bubble caused by very low long-term fixed-rate mortgages? Or was is due to a national, get-rich-quick obsession? Or Did Christianity Cause the Crash? The Prosperity Gospel teaches that God desires the material, spiritual, and physical prosperity of his people. It fosters risk-taking and intense material optimism, and the author argues that it helped inflate the housing bubble.

Crap - I only made $15B last year

blahblah — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 10:16:53 -0800

There are still some smart people left on Wall St. Hedge fund manager, John Paulson, made a cool $15B for his fund as the housing market imploded. His cut? $3-4B. Not too shabby for a year's worth of work. Interestingly, Greenspan was an advisor to the hedge fund. How much did he make out in the housing decline?

Try that with a fiat currency!

mecran01 — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 20:22:11 -0800

Federal Reserve Fan Fiction via the XKCD blog.

living in a gilded cage

geos — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 07:09:04 -0800

America 's debtor prisons .

Ben S. Bernanke's Payday Loans!

geoff. — Mon, 24 Oct 2005 10:14:00 -0800

The White House nominates Ben Bernanke to replace Alan Greenspan. Works at Princenton, got his doctorate at MIT, currently has several economic related papers out. Apparently actually has a job relating to economics, and wants to drop dollar bills out of a helicopter Well, cut taxes if we enter a deflationary period -- which is just as sexy.

A Profile of Alan Greenspan

Gyan — Tue, 29 Mar 2005 20:30:20 -0800

Alan Greenspan Takes A Bath : a profile of Greenspan

the maestro's agassed! aghast, get it? :D

kliuless — Fri, 15 Oct 2004 19:21:51 -0800

Greenspan on oil (speaking to the the National Italian American Foundation, which De Niro would never do :) "We will begin the transition to the next major sources of energy perhaps before midcentury as production from conventional oil reservoirs, according to central tendency scenarios of the Energy Information Administration, is projected to peak." And just to make it political, here's a chart relating presidential approval ratings to gas prices!

It all starts by looking a baby right in the eyes

languagehat — Wed, 29 Sep 2004 14:49:07 -0800

Language started with emotional signaling. That's the thesis of a new book, The First Idea: How Symbols, Language, And Intelligence Evolved From Our Primate Ancestors To Modern Humans, by Stanley I. Greenspan and Stuart G. Shanker.

Lived emotional experience is key to language learning, the authors suggest. "Mathematicians and physicists may manipulate abstruse symbols representing space, time, and quantity, but they first understood those entities as tiny children wanting a far-away toy, or waiting for juice, or counting cookies. The grown-up genius, like the adventurous child, forms ideas through playful explorations in the imagination, only later translated into the rigor of mathematics."

The book is very ambitious, and I don't think we'll ever know where language came from, but this sounds like a more fruitful line of thinking than Chomsky's deus ex machina "language gene" mutation.

Old folk are dancin'! 8d

kliuless — Thu, 27 Feb 2003 22:08:05 -0800

Demography is destiny Alan Greespan in Senate testimony discusses the implications of an aging population. While the US is getting older, other countries are relatively young. Can immigration and technology provide, as Greenspan says, a "potent antidote for slowing growth in the working-age population," or are such projections academic?

Hammerikaner — Tue, 16 Jul 2002 13:54:37 -0800

Someone we trust says something reassuring. Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan, arguably the most powerful man in the world, blames "infectious greed" for the recent panic-like tail-spins on Wall Street, but says that the economy is on the way to recovery. One comment held that Greenspan was finally able to let out how he feels about what's going on, without shrouding his opinion in economic jibber-jabber.

"For once he really spoke his mind. He usually tends to obfuscate things quite a bit."

But really, how many of you expected Greenspan to say anything other than "the fundamentals are in place for a return to sustained healthy growth"? Does Greenspan actually feel this way? Could it be that he is actually majorly pessimistic, but is using his soothing sweet-song voice and obvious clout and earned respect to somehow buck recent trends? Bush's speech didn't do much for our faltering economy, but will Greenspan's? Can one man's mere words possibly change the course of history? Well?

solistrato — Thu, 07 Mar 2002 10:02:08 -0800

I'm Alan Greenspan, And I'll Be Here All Week.

dwivian — Wed, 14 Nov 2001 08:09:53 -0800

Alan Greenspan -- Dance Band Musician When thinking of the best way to approach the new economy, we wait patiently for the magical words of Alan Greenspan. I don't think we expect to hear "and a one, and a two....."

bclark — Tue, 20 Mar 2001 08:24:50 -0800

All Your Basis Given all the special interest in what Greenspan may or may not do, this meme mutation was inevitable.

stbalbach — Mon, 18 Dec 2000 08:51:14 -0800

GWB sure seems happy. Wonder what Greenspan is thinking. Warning: not suitable for under 18.