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Al G can tell us what
was was motive?

securing global oil supplies was “not the administration’s motive

Not global oil supplies,
perhaps M.E. oil supplies?

Al G continues with his
Delphic Oracle pronouncements,
confounding the multitudes.

I have waited till I could read more of what he actually said, only a few excerpts so far, and all not saying what has been in to media for 2 days. Typical.

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Greenspan made several shocking statements in his new book and his interviews. He also says that interest rates will be over 10% and 10 year bonds over 8% in the next several years. I wrote about this earlier today.

http://www.growyourfunds.com/2007/09/alan_greenspans_new_book_arriv.html

Actually, aaron, you want to spam here you should know your target audience. Greenspan has so far said nothing out of line with his publicly stated positions of the last 10-15 years. Tilt. Reset. Try again.

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Did you say Aaron or errin’?

Better to have it and not need it than need it and not have it.

One more memo from “the Maestro” that won’t get nearly the attention it should in the mainstream press:

“The Clinton administration was a pretty centrist party. … But they’re not governing again. The next administration may have the Clinton administration name but the Democratic party … has moved … very significantly in the wrong direction.”

- Former Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan in a WSJ interview (subscription required) as quoted by Larry Kudlow

“Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of the mind is irreparable.”

Perhaps when you consider the CONSERVATIVE congress we had at the time you could say the government was Centrist.

But Clinton was no Centrist.

What’s going to happen to US industry when the global warming extremists like John McCain double the price of electricity?  I would think all these factories will close and set up in countries where they aren’t scared of technology.

I think it is entirely fair to to suggest that Bill Clinton was the ultimate political opportunist and would have promoted himself as a staunch vegetarian Martian had it meant public approval and votes.

Hillary, on the other hand, is a dogmatic collectivist whose entire presidential campaign is predicated on the idea that the more rabidly vocal and mindless ill-behaved the far left fringe appears in public, the more moderate and centrist she appears by comparison.  He wanted everyone to like him… she wants everyone to obey.

“Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of the mind is irreparable.”

Greenspan also thought Bill was a fellow information hound who had the long term economic health of the country in mind when he made his policies while Bush is motivated by politics.

Greenspan also thought Bill was a fellow information hound who had the long term economic health of the country in mind when he made his policies while Bush is motivated by politics.

That’s the most ignorant comment of the day.  Bill Clinton who set his core principles by focus groups wasn’t motivated by politics.  Who by his inaction allowed the Enron scandal to take place.

What’s going to happen to US industry when the global warming extremists like John McCain double the price of electricity?  I would think all these factories will close and set up in countries where they aren’t scared of technology.

Greenspan also thought Bill was a fellow information hound who had the long term economic health of the country in mind when he made his policies while Bush is motivated by politics.

Lestat,

And your source for this “conclusion” is what, exactly?  There is no such intimation in Greenspan’s book that I saw, but if you think differently, certainly a quotation and page number shouldn’t be too awfully difficult.

Likewise, if your source is an interview given by the former Fed chairman, it should be no trouble for you to post a quotation and the appropriate URL, now should it?

“Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of the mind is irreparable.”

Greenspan also thought Bill was a fellow information hound who had the long term economic health of the country in mind when he made his policies while Bush is motivated by politics.

Lestat, you have it backwards; Clinton was motivated by nothing other than politics, while President Bush has the long term economic health of this country in mind with his reducing of tax rates for everyone.

"Give the lefties a pile of money, and they’ll spend it buying votes.” - Rush Limbaugh on the “bailout”.

Alan Greenspan - “The Age of Turbulence”

Chapter 24, “The Long-Term Energy Squeeze”, Page 463, Final paragraph, first sentence, “I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows:  the Iraq war is largely about oil.”

Too bad you can not read the whole book. How sad.

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