Tag: Alan Greenspan

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2007-09-16 "I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows. The Iraq war is largely about oil."
-- Alan Greenspan, in his memoirs, The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World
2006-05 The IMF Committee to Study Sustainable Long-Term Financing consisted of a small group of eight "eminent persons," namely: Crockett; former Fed Chair Alan Greenspan; Mohamed el-Erian, CEO of Harvard Management Co.; Tito Mboweni, governor of the South African Reserve Bank; Guillermo Ortiz, governor of the Bank of Mexico; Hamad al-Sayari, governor of the Saudi Monetary Agency; Jean-Claude Trichet, president of the European Central Bank; and Zhou Xiaochuan, governor of the People's Bank of China
2004 “Not only have individual financial institutions become less vulnerable to shocks from underlying risk factors, but also the financial system as a whole has become more resilient.”
—- Alan Greenspan
2003 “What we have found over the years in the marketplace is that derivatives have been an extraordinarily useful vehicle to transfer risk from those who shouldn’t be taking it to those who are willing to and are capable of doing so.”
“We think it would be a mistake” to more deeply regulate the contracts.
-- Alan Greenspan, told the Senate Banking Committee
1994 The Federal Reserve System was welcomed to occupy the two seats on the Board of Directors (of the Bank for International Settlements) to which the central bank of the United States had been entitled since 1930. Alan Greenspan became an ex-officio member of the Board and appointed William J. McDonough, President of the New York Federal Reserve, to serve as a member of the BIS Board for a period of three years.
Alan Greenspan is a long-time member of the Trilateral Commission.

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