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 enlarge | Manufacturer: Penguin
Category: EBooks
List Price: $17.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  272 reviews
Sales Rank: 910
Format: Kindle Book
Media: Kindle Edition
Edition: Reprint
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 576
Dewey Decimal Number: 920
ASIN: B000UZJRIG
Publication Date: September 9, 2008
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 He had his chance October 5, 2007
33 out of 65 found this review helpful
Mr. Greenspan is trying to settle some scores, but again he's so obfuscating that I don't find the book very useful. It makes me sick to hear him now reversing himself and contradicting stuff he has been saying for last 10 years -- mortgages, CDOs, subprime... He said that there is no future for CDOs because they can't be priced! Well, maybe Alan can't price them, and very few peopel can, but to say something like that is dumb.
I wish he just shuts up now when he has nothing useful or meaningful to say. He had his chance and he blew it by being a lackey of the american corporate totalitarianism. We pay, of course.
 Non-fiction necessity- like a woolen coat in Alaska October 5, 2007
6 out of 8 found this review helpful
Hindsight is always 20-20 and Mr. Greenspan has at least 20-15 in some occasions when discussing his work. Those who have benefitted from the real estate and tech boom consider him the Nostradamus of his time and those who did not, Beelzebub. This is an interesting insight into a fascinating life. I am listening to it now on audio book and find it a compelling distraction from DC traffic albeit an annoying foray into DC lunacy. Probably not wholly accurate but it is his take, he is not a journalist like his wife, but an observer into an exciting life- his own
Narrator is only average but I think it might be the editing. Sometime the tonality of his voice changes in mid-sentence and you can tell when he is starting to become fatigued. I love fiction audio books that can be more fanciful. Sometimes non-fiction is a little tough on the ears and this editing leaves something to be desired.
 Read it as political and economic philsophy October 5, 2007
5 out of 8 found this review helpful
I suggest that anyone with an interest in political economy, and that should be everyone, read this book. Bear in mind this is not a adolescent "kiss and tell" that the popular press would like to have; it is a book for adults and folks with serious concerns about how the world and this nation should structure its political and economic systems. It is chock full of history, practical economics, and economic and political philosophy.
Alan Greenspan is the unique in his abilities and experience to produce such a volume.
His insights about the past and the future are those that everyone must consider as we move through the next century. Not always comforting, his comments are always enlightening.
Greenspan is a brilliant man - Audiobook is excellent! October 4, 2007
10 out of 12 found this review helpful
It doesn't take but a few minutes into this audiobook to realize that Alan Greenspan was a gem of a man to serve as Fed Chairman. The reader is so confident in the material, I felt as though I was listening to Greenspan himself explaining the world to me.
Every person who has a fascination for or love of economics should read, or better yet listen to this book!
 Greenspan's Pontius Pilate moment... October 3, 2007
18 out of 28 found this review helpful
This autobiography is one of the most shameless attempts to absolve one's sins by throwing other people under the train. In other words; you'll only hear half the story. There's juicy details about the last several presidents and their administrations in regards to fiscal and monetary policy and a lot of criticism is placed on pork barrel spending and government contractors. Now, even though Greenspan says he a libertarian (He wrote like two articles for Ayn Rand; who hated libertarians.) what's left out is his push for policies that certainly turned the once great nation of the U.S. into a corporatist state. It's interesting he mentioned Joseph Schumpeter as an inspiration to his work; Schumpeter was an economist who said that although capitalism is the greatest economic system of all, it eventually leads to corporatism and at that point socialism is democratically elected into power. The neoconservative objective perhaps?
Regardless of ideology, this book will make you angry if you know the inside details of the Fed Reserve, but for the love God, READ THIS BOOK. The more you know the better.
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