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September 17, 2007 exfed chief alan greenspan will see whether his words will move books as well as markets when his memoir the age of turbulence. Octavo, original half maroon paper boards, original dust jacket. Adventures in a new world is a 2007 memoir of former chairman of the federal reserve alan greenspan. Federal reserve chairmans thoughts on and predictions of the economic outlook of the world. Oct 20, 2007 at 61, alan greenspan, chairman of the us federal reserve board and widely regarded as master of the financial universe, married for the second time and paid his first visit to venice.
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From the bestselling author of the map and the territory and capitalism in america the age of turbulence is alan greenspans incomparable reckoning with the contemporary financial world, channeled through his own experiences working in the command room of the global economy longer and with greater effect than any other single living figure. Alan greenspan is famously a libertarian republican. The age of turbulence by alan greenspan ft business book. Adventures in a new world is a 2007 memoir of former chairman of the federal reserve alan greenspan, coauthored by peter petre, a former executive editor at fortune magazine. Feb 11, 20 my take on the autobiography of our countrys greatest federal reserve chairman. The age of turbulence by alan greenspan pepperdine university. What would have once meant a crippling shock to the system was absorbed astonishingly quickly, partly due to the efforts of the then chairman of the federal reserve board, alan greenspan. The age of turbulence is alan greenspan s incomparable reckoning with the contemporary financial world, channeled through his own experiences working in the command room of the global economy longer and with greater effect than any other single living figure. The age of turbulence is alan greenspan s incomparable reckoning with the nature of this new world how we got here, what were living through, and what lies over the horizon, for good and for illchanneled through his own experiences working in the command room of the global economy for longer and with greater effect than any other single. He is also, it turns out, a brownite, not a blairite.
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