Interest rises in Greenspan Nobel

Seth Ackerman SAckerman at FAIR.org
Fri Sep 17 12:34:45 PDT 1999


The last pair of bozos to win the economics Nobel went on to almost destroy the world economy. Greenspan will be in good company...

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Interest rises in Greenspan Nobel

September 5, 1999

BY ROBERT NOVAK SUN-TIMES COLUMNIST

Friends and admirers of Alan Greenspan, including banking industry lobbyists, are mounting a campaign to bestow the Nobel prize for economics on the Federal Reserve Board chairman.

To give this award to a government official would be without precedent. Normally, the Nobel prize goes to an economist who has made a landmark theoretical breakthrough--something Greenspan has not done. A private economic forecaster before his appointment to the Fed, he did not earn his doctorate until relatively late in his career.



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