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Fed Chair Alan Greenspan intentionally babbled meaningless slop and got away with it

While chairman of the Federal Reserve, Alan Greenspan developed what economist Alan Blinder called "a turgid dialect of English" — deliberate obscurantism designed to prevent financial markets from overreacting to his words. He admitted as much in a 2007 interview with 60 Minutes's Lesley Stahl: "I would engage in some form of syntax destruction which sounded as though I were answering the…

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Choose Class War, Not Boomer Resentment

The generational warfare promoted by centrists and the Right, who have long been desperate to cut and privatize Social Security, is a fool’s solution to what ails the system. Taxing the rich is the answer.


“Total boomer luxury communism” is the Right’s latest attempt to convince younger Americans to slash their own future benefits under the guise of sticking it to older generations.…

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Hollywood Vet Alan Greenspan Launches Munich & London-Based Management & Production Outfit Bridge; Client Lineup, Slate Revealed

EXCLUSIVE: Veteran Hollywood agent and producer Alan Greenspan (Fever Pitch) is launching Munich and London-based management and production firm Bridge MP. Greenspan, a longtime ICM packaging agent and partner at UK production company 6 Degree Media, was a producer on Colin Firth starrer Fever Pitch and an executive producer on movies including High Fidelity and […]

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