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What Alan Greenspan Has Learned Since 2008

Harvard Business Review

Greenspan had a long career as a private economic analyst and forecaster behind him when he was appointed Federal Reserve chairman in 1987. In this view, the “soft landing” engineered by the Fed in 1994-1995, hailed at the time as a masterpiece of monetary policy-making, may have actually set the stage for the wild times that ensued.