All Posts Tagged With: "Alan Greenspan"
Illusion of Control
Christopher Mayer is a commercial loan officer and freelance writer. Every day at noon a man shows up at a street corner with a green flag and a bugle. Every day he waves the flag and blows a few notes on the bugle. Then he goes away. A police officer notices this man’s behavior and [...]
1Sep2001 | Christopher Mayer | 0 comments | ContinuedGreenspan: The Man Behind Money by Justin Martin
Perseus Publishing · 2000 · 284 pages · $28.00 Reviewed by Alexander Franco He has been called the second most important man in America and the nation’s most enigmatic public official. Yet the public knows little of Alan Greenspan’s personal life or of the secretive inner workings of the Federal Reserve System. Justin Martin has [...]
1Sep2001 | Alexander Franco | 0 comments | Continued-
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