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The Culture: The Greenspan Legacy

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Originally posted by Nicholas Provenzo from The Rule of Reason,

This gem of a quote appeared in Washington Post business columnist Steven Pearlstein's article on the legacy of Alan Greenspan:

Greenspan summed up the trade-offs behind his deregulatory philosophy in a series of unusually lucid speeches in London in 2002, on the eve of being knighted by Queen Elizabeth. "The extent of government intervention in markets to control risk-taking," he said, "is a trade-off between economic growth and its associated potential instability, and a more civil but less stressful way of life with a lower standard of living."

Good grief. It sounds to me like Greenspan was a man who never filed his own tax return or ever had to comply with a government regulation.

The real Greenspan legacy is the story of how a man went from someone who wrote an expose of antitrust in "Capitalism the Unknown Ideal" to a man who concluded that government intervention in the economy produces "a more civil but less stressful way of life."

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