Irrational Exuberance
Edition: 2 edition
Publisher: Currency
Published: May 9, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780767923637
Subjects: Stocks; Investments & Securities - General; Economics (General); Business & Economics; Business / Economics / Finance; Business/Economics; Investments & Securities - Stocks; Business & Economics / Economic Conditions; Economic Conditions; Prices; Stock exchanges; United States
First sentence: When Alan Greenspan, chairman of the Federal Reserve Board in Washington, used the term irrational exuberance to describe the behavior of stock market investors in an otherwise staid speech on December 5, 1996, the world fixated on those words.