[lbo-talk] Ha, ha! (Greenspan edition)

joseph noonan joseph at noonan.ws
Sun Oct 26 14:50:28 PDT 2008


On Sat, 25 Oct 2008, Dorene Cornwell wrote:


> The other day on the radio there was a piece about Greenspan at some
> point saying something about "the markets are undervaluing risk." Whole
> thing made me think of the "irrational exuberance from a ways back.
> Wonder if there any other Greenspanisms floating around the ether to
> test the percentage of things he actually called correctly, albeit
> likely in overly abstruce language.

While not really a prediction of any kind, this has always been one of my favorite Greenspasms:

I've been able to string more words into fewer ideas than anybody I

know, and I'm continuing to do that.

-- Alan Greenspan to the Senate Budget Committee, Sept 23, 1998



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