Steven Mufson

Now in a new book called Bubble Man: Alan Greenspan and the Missing 7 Trillion Dollars, Peter Hartcher, the former Washington bureau chief for the Australian Financial Review, condemns Greenspan for the stock market crash of 2001. Greenspan’s failure to take the exuberance out of “irrational exuberance,” says Hartcher, had “dreadful consequences.” Contrary to traditional […]