The Greenspan effect
Subtitle: words that move the world's markets
By: David B. Sicilia and Jeffrey L. Cruikshank
Contributors: Cruikshank, Jeffrey L.
Publisher: McGraw-Hill; McGraw Hill
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 273
ISBN-13: 9780071349192
Subjects: Social security; Centrale banken; Internationale kapitaalmarkt; Kreditmarkt; Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.); Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System; Monetary policy; Biography; Economic policy; Effect of inflation on; Stocks; Business cycles; Investments; Government economists; Geldpolitik
Description: "By focusing on Alan Greenspan's public pronouncements as Fed chairman, The Greenspan Effect provides a concise, accurate distillation of Greenspan's thinking on today's most important economic topics. It presents an historic, solidly researched overview of how these pronouncements have affected Wall Street and other world financial markets.

In so doing, this valuable profile equips investors and businesspeople with today's most important tool - an analysis of how Alan Greenspan has responded in past economic environments, what he is likely to do in the future, and how financial markets will react."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 268-269) and index.
Table of contents: title: The Power of Greenspan -- -- Pt. I.; title: Greenspan, the Fed, and the Stock Market. -- 1.; title: The Fed Chairman as World Celebrity. -- 2.; title: The Fed's Levers of Power -- -- Pt. II.; title: Words that Lift Markets. -- 3.; title: The "Exceptional" Economy. -- 4.; title: The "Oasis of Prosperity" -- 5.; title: The "Salutary" Sell-Off. -- 6.; title: The Wealth Effect -- -- Pt. III.; title: Words that Sink Markets. -- 7.; title: "Irrational Exuberance" in the Stock Markets. -- 8.; title: Battling Inflation. -- 9.; title: Tight Labor Markets. -- 10.; title: Financial Contagion -- -- Pt. IV.; title: Remaking Financial Institutions. -- 11.; title: Reforming Social Security. -- 12.; title: Merging Commercial and Investment Banking. -- 13.; title: Reforming Federal Deposit Insurance. -- 14.; title: Derivatives -- -- Pt. V.; title: World Crisis Manager. -- 15.; title: The Asian Crisis. -- 16.; title: The Crash of '87. -- 17.; title: The Gulf War -- -- Pt. VI.; title: Competing in the Global Economy. -- 18.; title: U.S. International Competitiveness. -- 19.; title: Foreign Investment in the U.S. -- 20.; title: Economic Reform in Russia and Eastern Europe. -- 21.; title: The Virtues of Capitalism -- -- Pt. VII.; title: Critical Investments.