Nick Timiraos
speaker
1,192 appearances
14 recordings
5 series
first heard Oct 2025
last heard 17 Sep
Nick Timiraos’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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He was a musician.
He studied at Juilliard.
He played with jazz bands during World War II.
He was a nerd.
You know, when his bandmates, when they were taking their breaks, they would go off and smoke cigarettes or pot.
And Alan Greenspan would go read biographies at J.P.
Morgan.
And he later wrote that he'd much rather be reading about iron ore deposits in South America than Gone with the Wind.
So he was interested in the nuts and bolts of what made the economy move.
It made a tidy sum selling his insights about the business cycle to the biggest CEOs and U.S.
businesses in the country.
He was extremely political.
I'm not saying he was a partisan operator, but he was somebody who courted lawmakers.
He made sure that he had support to do whatever he might need to do.
The first was in 1994, when he launched a preemptive strike against inflation.
He was concerned that the economy was turning, and he didn't want the Fed to be caught behind.
And Greenspan was able to convince everybody to just sit on our hands here because he saw something in the data that wasn't evident yet.
The tech boom, the internet revolution, was allowing for stronger non-inflationary growth.
And so he really earned sort of this reputation as the man who could see things that other people couldn't.
When Alan Greenspan became the Fed chairman, the Fed didn't announce when they had changed interest rates.
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