Heads up west coast, Alan the turtle Greenspan on 60 minutes.

[AlCzervik]

say he didn't see the mortgage melt down coming.

[AlCzervik]

1. 8 million dollar book advance, must be nice, hope he got in euros.

[skids]

12. So THAT's why he's hawkish on interest rate increases!

:rofl:

[AlCzervik]

13. yup.

[AlCzervik]

2. won't say what currencies he hold, mmm, also wrote 80% of his book in the bath tub.

tmi.

[Olney Blue]

4. Strange, isn't he?

Pours over policy data before breakfast. Dated Andrea 13 yrs before proposing.

But he admires the Big Dog!

[AlCzervik]

6. yes and he proposed in "Fed speak" how romantic!

i can't even imagine how that must have sounded.

[papau]

19. He did say his assets are not soley in the US in dollars :-) n/t

n/t

[AlCzervik]

3. he was friends with Ayn Rand, shocked i tell ya.

[AlCzervik]

5. Nixon swore a lot, Reagan had "An odd type of intelligence"?, He hated Bush 1

Clinton was the smartest and the best "Even though i'm a republican".

[TomInTib]

7. Heck, even I saw the mortgage crisis coming.

But I also know a good many homebuilders and developers who knew it, as well.

Greenspan is just covering his ass for keeping the Prime so low for so long (to help the likes of Bobby Jack Perry, et al.).

That failure alone should be his sorry legacy.

[AlCzervik]

8. omg he approved on bush's tax cut because---he was afraid the surplus would

get "Too large".

[Olney Blue]

14. That was news to me- I never knew it could be "too large"

[AlCzervik]

15. black is white, up is down, bush is smart. Thats the world according to Greenspan.

[SharonAnn]

20. He didn't approve Bush's tax cut. He supported A tax cut, a small one. Bush said he supported it.

[AlCzervik]

9. Disappointed by "His old friend" Dick Cheney because Cheney said "Defecits don't matter"

[Fridays Child]

10. This just shows that a person can dislike Dick and George and still be a self-serving pig.

I am overwhelmingly underwhelmed by the man.

[AlCzervik]

11. no kidding and why does he think we'd trust him now?

[theoldman]

16. Like Colin Powell, Alan Greenspan lost all respect by sucking

up to Bush. Greenspan was respected all over the world when he worked with Clinton. When you lay down with dogs you get up with fleas.

[AlCzervik]

17. Enablers, the both of them.

[begin_within]

18. I had a grudging respect for him until this interview.

It was like watching a little boy who just got called into the principal's office.

[papau]

21. Said housing prices would come down a great deal more - I don't think he should

have said that even if he thinks it, if his goal was to not screw up things worse than they currently are.