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?
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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?
True dat. There were also a series of Hapsburg emperors who probably fit the bill, too. Etc., etc.
Still … scary, in’nit?
There’s also Cheney…but, yes, very very scary.