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What Alan Greenspan Has Learned Since 2008

Harvard Business Review

I tried to get Greenspan to talk me for my November HBR article on economics and finance since the crisis , but he said he’d promised his publisher to keep mum until the book was out, which was too late for my purposes. It’s true of GDP. The dot-com boom when it collapsed, you can’t find it in the GDP figures in 2001, 2002.

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Why We Build Fiscal Cliffs

Harvard Business Review

One issue right now is that the biggest element of the fiscal cliff — the scheduled expiration of the Bush tax cuts of 2001 and 2003 — is less the product of conscious pre-commitment than of American legislative complexity. In 2010, Congress voted to extend the 2001 cuts for two years. entry into World War I.