Greenspan’s Long Reach


Posted by Matski on February 27th, 2007

Oy. Exit stage, already, Alan.

NYT notes in an article discussing the sleigh ride that the market’s become:

… investors were still digesting comments by the former chairman of the Federal Reserve, Alan Greenspan, who told a conference in Hong Kong on Monday that a recession in the United States is likely.

When in human history has so much depended on the cryptic utterances of a stoop-shouldered old man? Especially one who is nominally retired?


3 Responses to “Greenspan’s Long Reach”  

  1. 1 beige

    When in human history has so much depended on the cryptic utterances of a stoop-shouldered old man?

    Matski, may I remind you of the Pope? All of them?

  2. 2 Matski

    True dat. There were also a series of Hapsburg emperors who probably fit the bill, too. Etc., etc.

    Still … scary, in’nit?

  3. 3 beige

    There’s also Cheney…but, yes, very very scary.

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