Title: Alan Shrugged
First published: 2002
Description: 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.    Yet, this Atlas of number crunchers, who owned and operated a highly successful Wall Street consulting firm, never amassed a personal fortune, was a member of the cultlike inner circle surrounding one of America's most controversial authors, and began his career as a professional jazz musician. Clearly, there is even more to Alan Greenspan than meets the eye.    In Alan Shrugged, you'll meet Greenspan the public figure and Alan the private man in the most detailed, revealing, and entertaining account of Greenspan's ...
Subjects: Biography, Biography & Autobiography, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.), Government economists, Monetary policy, Nonfiction, Biographies, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, Greenspan, alan, 1926-, Monetary policy, united states, Bankiers
Places: United States
People: Alan Greenspan (1926-)
LC classification: HB119.G74 T83 2002