Wall Street Breakfast: Must-Know News [View article]
Re "Greenspan on the US Economy..." Greenspan is great with words, great to read and listen to. But something stinks around the Fed. In his book "The Age of Turbulence" he writes"...Rising leverage appears to be the result of vast improvements in technology and infrastructure, not significantly more risk-inclined humans. Obviously, a surge of debt leverage above what the newer technologies can support invites a crisis. I'm not sure where the tipping point is." (slightly paraphrased) And now "...We have not confronted a situation like this in over half a century," and, "The problem is not the lack of regulation but unrealistic expectations about what regulators are able to prevent." Well someone should explain the $530 trillion in cdos as it rips it's way through the belly of the economy like a butchers knife.
Wall Street Breakfast: Must-Know News [View article]
Greenspan is great with words, great to read and listen to. But something stinks around the Fed. In his book "The Age of Turbulence" he writes"...Rising leverage appears to be the result of vast improvements in technology and infrastructure, not significantly more risk-inclined humans. Obviously, a surge of debt leverage above what the newer technologies can support invites a crisis. I'm not sure where the tipping point is." (slightly paraphrased) And now "...We have not confronted a situation like this in over half a century," and, "The problem is not the lack of regulation but unrealistic expectations about what regulators are able to prevent." Well someone should explain the $530 trillion in cdos as it rips it's way through the belly of the economy like a butchers knife.