Tuesday, April 5, 2011

Greenspan Returns to De-Regulation

by Michael Hudson from his blog
It all seems so long ago! On October 23, 2008, Alan Greenspan choked up a mea culpa for his deregulatory policy as Federal Reserve Chairman. “Those of us who have looked to the self-interest of lending institutions to protect shareholders’ equity, myself included, are in a state of shocked disbelief,” he told the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. “The whole intellectual edifice, however, collapsed in the summer of last year.”
This capitalist clown returns to his religion--the invisible hand of the market.