A good steward.(Federal Reserve Board's Alan Greenspan )(Editorial)

ABA Banking Journal, November, 2005 by Streeter, William W.

THERE MUST HAVE BEEN MOMENTS over the past 18 years when Alan Greenspan would rather have done anything but look at one more spreadsheet of macroeconomic data. Or times when he just wanted to shout, "There is no bubble!" instead of offering yet another carefully hedged answer to a congressman's question. After all, beneath that placid, scholarly mien, and beyond that stultifying delivery of economic erudition, beats the heart of human being.

No human being on this Earth is without fault, or always right. Even Alan Greenspan has his share of vilifiers. It comes with the turf. Yet here is a man who for nearly two decades has served his country, his countrymen, and indeed, in large measure, the world community, competently and steadfastly day after day, year after...

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