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• Alan Greenspan Gets a Job, Richard Branson Goes Bananas

  Published: August 13, 2007, 1:08 pm

  Tags: Company Town, Alan Greenspan, Badgley Mischka, Richard Branson, Rupert Murdoch, Steve Schwarzman

  circuit for the last year, Alan Greenspan finally got a real job advising Deutsche Bank's securities division. [Bloomberg] • Which heads will roll when all the dust from subprime settles? Some say John Mack, the CEO of Morgan Stanley, others Chuck Prince of Citigroup, but the biggest danger may be for Goldman Sachs’

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• Anna Wintour Puts Friends Before Fashion. Really.

  Published: August 23, 2007, 12:59 pm

  Tags: Company Town, Alan Greenspan, Anna Wintour, Betsey Johnson, Isabella Blow, Steve Schwarzman

  right? [Bloomberg] • Alan Greenspan supposedly told his new bosses at Deutsche that he would have lowered rates by now, though he denies it. [WSJ] MEDIA • Chris Matthews's executive producer, Tammy Haddad, was fired after Hardball dropped to the lowest-rated show in MSNBC's primetime lineup. [ETP/HuffPo] • AJR is failing,

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• Valentino Resigns, Greenspan Blogs

  Published: September 4, 2007, 1:05 pm

  Tags: Company Town, Alan Greenspan, Tina Brown, Valentino, William F Buckley

  traders. [NYP] • Alan Greenspan, just another blogger? [Amazon.com via DealBreaker] MEDIA • ABC's wounded anchor Bob Woodruff is quietly back at work. [Fox News] • Tina Brown will join Lewis Lapham and William F. Buckley in the magazine editor's hall of fame. [NYP, ASME] • Stephen Colbert managed to sell his

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• OECD cuts US growth rate, warns of possible recession

  Published: September 6, 2007, 4:36 am

  Tags: Gop Congress, Alan Greenspan, Economy

  for a soft economy. While Greenspan never saw this coming, plenty of others did but were swept aside because everyone had houses and money was falling from the sky.The OECD is suggesting bank rate cuts though any action today is likely much too late. We needed leadership a few years ago when common sense should have prevailed over the

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• Market plunges more than 200 points as economic worries mount

  Published: September 7, 2007, 8:15 am

  Tags: Aapl, Alan Greenspan, Alangreenspan, Ben Bernanke, Benbernanke, Bsc, Economy, Featured, Federal Reserve, Federalreserve, Housing Market, Housingmarket, Inflation, Mer, Msft, Subprime Mortgages, Subprimemortgages, The Fed, Thefed

  Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan that the current market turmoil was identical to previous ones has sent the stock market into a tailspin today, pushing down the Dow Jones Industrial Average by more than 200 points. Merrill Lynch & Co. (NYSE: MER), Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (NYSE: GS) and Bear Stearns Cos. (NYSE: BSC), which

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• Greenspan rolls out the CYA strategy

  Published: September 7, 2007, 3:51 am

  Tags: Bush Economy, Real Estate Bubble, Alan Greenspan

  Alan, it's all so clear today and yes, what could you have done to see what many others saw as you scoffed at talk about a bubble and economic woes, thought slashing taxes during a war made great sense and had nothing to saw about the now tanking GOP economy? Yes, it could have happened to anyone as you point to other historical crashes in the

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• Market plunges more than 200 points as economic worries mount

  Published: September 7, 2007, 8:15 am

  Tags: Aapl, Alan Greenspan, Alangreenspan, Ben Bernanke, Benbernanke, Bsc, Economy, Featured, Federal Reserve, Federalreserve, Housing Market, Housingmarket, Inflation, Mer, Msft, Subprime Mortgages, Subprimemortgages, The Fed, Thefed

  Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan that the current market turmoil was identical to previous ones has sent the stock market into a tailspin today, pushing down the Dow Jones Industrial Average by more than 200 points. Merrill Lynch & Co. (NYSE: MER), Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (NYSE: GS) and Bear Stearns Cos. (NYSE: BSC), which

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• Alan Greenspan: ‘Not My Fault’

  Published: September 14, 2007, 1:05 pm

  Tags: Company Town, Alan Greenspan, Ashton Kutcher, Cameron Diaz, Demi Moore, Diane Von Furstenberg, Emanuel Ungaro, Gordon Gekko, John Roberts, Marc Jacobs, Steve Schwarzman, Time Inc

  • Alan Greenspan says don't blame him for the credit crisis. He may not have understood the dangers until recently, but the former Fed chief claims there's nothing he could have done. [NYP] • Who needs Wall Street 2 when Gordon Gekko is already back in the guise of Steve Schwarzman? The Blackstone founder just bought a big

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• Mr Bubble kicking off his "rescue my legacy" tour

  Published: September 15, 2007, 2:25 am

  Tags: Real Estate Bubble, Alan Greenspan, Economy

  many of them. Better still, Greenspan can team up with Bush and they can both explain how great they really are despite what everyone can see with their own eyes. Excerpts from his 60 Minutes interview here."With hindsight, it is possible to see that his modus operandi was to blow one bubble after another," said Tom Schlesinger, the executive

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• Iraq War Was About Oil?

  Published: September 16, 2007, 4:15 am

  Tags: Global Warming, Oil, Partisanship, Iraq, Alan Greenspan

  Greenspan thinks so...From the UK Times AMERICA's elder statesman of finance, Alan Greenspan, has shaken the White House by declaring that the prime motive for the war in Iraq was oil.In his long-awaited memoir, to be published tomorrow, Greenspan, a Republican whose 18-year tenure as head of the US Federal Reserve was widely admired, will

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• Mr Bubble criticizes Bush and GOP economic policies

  Published: September 16, 2007, 5:34 am

  Tags: Bush Economy, Gop Congress, Alan Greenspan

  It's unfortunate for Greenspan that we lived through that period and when all of the insane GOP policies were being shoved through Congress, he offered no criticism and did nothing to stop the insanity. In fact, Greenspan even went on the offensive against Hillary when she dared to ask questions and criticized the 2001 tax cuts. Funny

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• Greenspan comes out in favor and against just about everything

  Published: September 17, 2007, 5:20 am

  Tags: Real Estate Bubble, Alan Greenspan, Economy

  This guy flip-flops around even more than Mitt Romney though he is helping everyone see why there was so much economic turmoil during his tenure. Besides "clarifying" his statement about Iraq being about the oil (Saddam had to go to protect oil distribution or else prices would spiral out of control...sort of like what we have today and worse, is

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• Polls: Sally Field, Alan Greenspan Weigh In On War, Politics. Who's More Right?

  Published: September 17, 2007, 9:30 am

  Tags: Alan Greenspan, Polls, Sally Field

  One short weekend, two more high-level protestations from former centrists against the Bush Administration and politics in general. First came former Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan, who is... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

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• He Said, She Said, And Perception

  Published: September 17, 2007, 10:38 am

  Tags: Alan Greenspan, Robert Gates, Oil, Oil Law, Iraq, Iraq War

  Greenspan must have a yen for causing an uproar now that he’s quit government. In his published memoirs, available for purchase today, Greenspan has stirred up the hornet’s nest by asserting not only that Bush was terrible in regards to fiscal discipline, but also that the “Iraq war is largely about oil.” Such a

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• Greg Larkin Was the Al Gore of the Supbrime Mess

  Published: September 17, 2007, 1:11 pm

  Tags: Company Town, Alan Greenspan, Chloe, Dick Cheney, Greg Larkin, H Amp M, Marc Jacobs, Rupert Murdoch, Simpson Thacher, Sullivan Amp Cromwell

  FINANCE • Alan Greenspan was giddy when old buds Don Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney took over the White House. But it turned out they were bad boys and not his friends at all. Check out this and more in Greenspan’s new bio. [

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