Nick Timiraos
speaker
1,192 appearances
14 recordings
5 series
first heard Oct 2025
last heard 17 Sep
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For so long, his views had gone relatively unquestioned.
And at this hearing, now the tables are turning and people are basically saying, you were the cop on the beat.
We listened to you.
What happened?
And, you know, Greenspan did acknowledge mistakes at that hearing.
You know, Alan Greenspan was always somebody who was trying to forecast.
He was trying to understand the economy.
And so he said, I now need to understand what happened here because I had this whole philosophical worldview that's been exposed by what just happened here.
And, you know, he had warned about the prospect for these kinds of bubbles.
when he was Fed chair, when you have low inflation, when you deliver the kind of low inflation that the Greenspan Fed was presiding over at the time, people begin to take more risks.
There's a fundamental problem with monetary policy in that if you do too well, no good deed goes unpunished.
You will see these sort of asset manias or asset booms.
And the question then and the question today is, should the Fed raise interest rates to prick these bubbles?
And if not, then what do you do?
The Trump administration has argued that the Fed should not be worried about inflation here.
And the argument they've used to really prosecute that case is to point back to the Greenspan of 1996 and 1997 when there was pressure to raise interest rates and Greenspan resisted.
Kevin Warsh thinks the Fed has been talking too much.
All these press conferences, you put out your economic projections.
That wasn't what Alan Greenspan did.
Can we please...
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