Alan Shrugged: Alan Greenspan, the World's Most Powerful Banker [Repost]

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.