{"id":197884,"date":"2008-01-03T22:43:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-04T03:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/01\/03\/a-great-quote-on-alan-bubbles-greenspan\/"},"modified":"2008-01-03T22:43:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-04T03:43:00","slug":"a-great-quote-on-alan-bubbles-greenspan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/01\/03\/a-great-quote-on-alan-bubbles-greenspan\/","title":{"rendered":"A Great Quote on Alan &#8220;Bubbles&#8221; Greenspan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Crooks and liars has the video of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crooksandliars.com\/2008\/01\/02\/booktv-robert-kuttner-on-the-intellectual-inconsistency-of-alan-greenspans-economics\/\">Robert Kuttner on CSPAN&#8217;s &#8220;Book TV&#8221;<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>What was so striking about that book [Greenspan\u2019s The Age of Turbulence], was that half of it is a screed against the need for government regulation\u2014you know, free markets are self-regulating\u2014government doesn\u2019t need to mess with free markets. They\u2019ll correct themselves. And the other half of it is Greenspan\u2019s memoir about all of the times he used the Federal Reserve to bail out failed bets by free markets. Now, how can you have it both ways? Well, if you rule the roost, you can have it any way you want. Fine. But there\u2019s a hypocrisy and there\u2019s a lack of intellectual consistency. Either free markets regulate themselves and the government really shouldn\u2019t do anything\u2014yes, Alan, the Fed is part of the government\u2014or, if you think the markets run the risk of going haywire, you have a duty to regulate on the front end and not just bail them out on the back end. So, I think citizens can raise hell about this and elect people who believe in a managed form of capitalism rather than a predatory form of capitalism.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crooks and liars has the video of Robert Kuttner on CSPAN&#8217;s &#8220;Book TV&#8221;: What was so striking about that book [Greenspan\u2019s The Age of Turbulence], was that half of it is a screed against the need for government regulation\u2014you know, free markets are self-regulating\u2014government doesn\u2019t need to mess with free markets. They\u2019ll correct themselves. And &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[973,1064,985],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy","category-media","category-regulation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197884"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197884\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}