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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And that today is seen as a remarkable call because the 90s were an era of unparalleled prosperity.
Alan Greenspan had a deep faith in markets, that the people in them would act in their own self-interest.
And that is what made him a brilliant reader of the economy in the 1990s and early 2000s.
But in the end, it also left him in what he described as a state of shocked disbelief.
After he was Fed chair and the housing bubble burst, it ricocheted through the global financial system.
It forced massive bailouts, intervention that his whole hands-off philosophy had said you would never want to take.
And so he did, at the very end of his professional life, admit that he had been wrong about thinking that markets would always be able to self-regulate and self-police, that something had broken down in his worldview.
Friends will tell you the picture, golf, guitar, philanthropy, time with grandkids, maybe a memoir somewhere down the line.
Everybody has their way relief stress, and Powell's is to play the guitar.
Hank Williams ballads.
From people I've talked to, he was genuinely looking forward to it.
He was counting down the days.
He said he felt like he had no choice.
And I read that as this is really the last card he could play.
And he doesn't think that he can walk away from the job while the relationship between the Federal Reserve and the executive branch is in as bad a state as it is.
This is about protecting the institution.
I think you're referring to this knack he has for repeating sentences backwards.
So if you say something, he can just take it and tell you what you just said in reverse order.
I have not seen him do it.
It's kind of an awkward thing to do in the moment.
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