Topic: Alan Greenspan

Ron Paul says the continued slow improvement in U.S. employment “is a temporary reprieve” in an economic system that would be changed if he is elected president.

Fred Goodwin, the former chief executive of Royal Bank of Scotland, last week joined Italian fascist dictator Benito Mussolini and Romania's communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu on the list of people who have had their knighthoods rescinded by the UK.

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Top policymakers did not seriously consider the idea that problems in the housing market would bring a recession, newly released transcripts show. The New York Times reports.

The United States faces a "true revolution" in the choices it will have to make to secure its fiscal future now that the welfare state has run up against a "brick wall of economic reality", former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said on Wednesday.