Playing Truth or Dare with Alan Greenspan

By Paul Kedrosky · Friday, November 23, 2007 ·

As an exercise for readers, please tear apart the illogic in the following dubious statements by ex-Fed maestro Alan Greenspan. The subject, of course, is the ongoing housing/mortgage/subprime/economic meltdown in the U.S.:

  1. "The housing bubble is not a reflection of what we did, as it is a global phenomenon."
  2. The collapse of the U.S. subprime market "was a shocker because no one expected it"

He's all yours, folks.

[via Bloomberg]

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