| Description |
xii, 271 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [255]-260) and index. |
| Contents |
Hitting a tank with a stick -- The Burns Fed : price controls, inflation, and the Watergate cover-up with a distinguished professor at the helm -- The master of garblements -- Spinning mountains into molehills -- Valuable secrets and the return of Greenspan's 'prophetic touch' -- The seventeen-year lie -- Corrupted airplanes and computer mice -- Standing in the door against civil rights -- When five hundred economists are not enough -- The myth of political virginity -- Pricking the stock market bubble and other Greenspan policies -- Bring the Fed into the democracy -- Appendix : excerpts from Waste and abuse in the Federal Reserve's payment system. |
| Subject |
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.)
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Governmental investigations -- United States -- Case studies.
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Greenspan, Alan, 1926-
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Gonzalez, Henry B. (Henry Barbosa), 1916-2000.
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| ISBN |
9780292717855 (cl. : alk. paper) |
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0292717857 (cl. : alk. paper) |
| Standard No. |
NLGGC 310062438 |
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AU@ 000042538762 |
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CDX 6501619 |
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GEBAY 10596115 |
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