Why Greenspan allowed irrational exuberance
From the Financial Times, Thursday.
In the summer of 1996, while Bill Clinton was surfing to re-election on a wave of equity market euphoria and spreading national prosperity, the mood inside the Federal Reserve in Washington was anxious.
Policymakers on the central bank's federal open market committee (FOMC) were concerned that the
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