Alan Shrugged: Alan Greenspan, the World’s Most Powerful Banker
Publisher: Wiley
Number of Pages: 302
Published: 2002-08-16
List price: $32.50
ISBN-10: 047139906X
ISBN-13: 9780471399063
Power . . . Personality . . . Paradox When Alan Greenspan talks, Wall Street listens-as do bankers, investors, politicians, and economists throughout the world. He is the number one arbiter of U.S. monetary policy-credited, as Chairman of the Federal Reserve, with having simultaneously held inflation down and kept the economy growing throughout the longest and largest economic expansion in U.S. history. Yet, this Atlas of number crunchers, who owned and operated a highly successful Wall Street consulting firm, never amassed a personal fortune, was a member of the cultlike inner c...