Maestro: Greenspan's Fed and the American Boom (Greenspan, Alan)
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| Rating | : | 4.49 (908 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0743205626 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 288 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-04-09 |
| Language | : | English |
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""The nurturing of capital and property ownership."" according to Dextra L. Suggs. The cozy relationship of the politically well connected and the corporate elite always makes for interesting reading. There are some interesting tidbits in this book; the familiar names of the politically entrenched and the precarious state of our natio. "Depends on what you want this for." according to Donald C. Wunsch II. Do you want to be generally more knowledgeable about one of our nation's most powerful men? Want to understand better how the Fed's decisions affect the economy? Want to appreciate the always-delicate interplay between politics and monetary policy? How . S. Schopp said Woodward fails to deliver. I had a lot of respect for Woodward and have read most of his books. In an interview Woodward admitted he used a coauthor on this one. The story about Greenspan is glib and shallow. The book doesn't really describe who Greenspan is or his exact role in
In Maestro, Bob Woodward uses his proven interviewing and research techniques to take you inside the Fed and Greenspan's thinking. Woodward presents the Greenspan years as a gripping narrative, a remarkable portrait of a man who has become the symbol of American economic preeminence.. Perhaps the last Washington secret is how the Federal Reserve and its enigmatic chairman, Alan Greenspan, operate
Marvelously, Woodward relates that Greenspan had to propose twice to his wife, the violinist-turned-TV news star Andrea Mitchell, before she understood: "His verbal obscurity and caution were so ingrained that Mitchell didn't even know that he had asked her to marry him." Woodward gives us the inside story of what Greenspan really thinks and how he outmaneuvered the most ruthless politicians on earth in some of the hairiest times imaginable, from the 1987 stock market crash to the 1994-95 Mexican crisis to the stomach-churning turn of the century. He rules by consensus, but with a firm hand and notoriously inscrutable words. Who knew Reagan had a draft