Greenspan
Americannoun
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One thing I learned as a Wall Street Journal reporter covering Alan Greenspan’s 18-year reign of the Federal Reserve: Don’t ask the man a question when you’re in a buffet line with coffee in one hand, a plate in the other, and a reporter’s notebook in your back pocket.
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That led me to write External link: “Having weighed the evidence carefully, Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan wants you to know that the U.S. economy is getting lighter. Literally.”
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Greenspan had other unconventional ways of monitoring the economy.
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That insight led Greenspan to resist pressure from fellow policymakers to raise interest rates in 1996: He understood that rising productivity from the information technology revolution would allow the economy to grow faster without fueling inflation.
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When President Ronald Reagan nominated Greenspan to head the Fed in 1987, skeptics suggested the economic consultant-turned-White House aide wouldn’t be able to fill the shoes of his predecessor, Paul Volcker.
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