Greenspan IQ query

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Thu Apr 6 23:09:16 PDT 2000


Michael Pollak wrote:


> On Wed, 5 Apr 2000, Enrique Diaz-Alvarez wrote:
>
> > He may be a mediocrity, but the head of the Fed cannot possibly be
> > *that* stupid, can he? Anybody with inside information out there?
>
> I heard one commentary that might have been parody, but might have been
> straight, arguing that Greenspan was *trying* to appear clueless.

There is a precedent. Eisenhower had a very powerful intellect -- and systematically created the impression that he was a buffoon. On the other hand Reagan was apparently as mindless as he pretended to be.

Carrol



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