December 12, 2007

Greenspan: subprime “accident waiting to happen” (Reuters)

Former U.S. Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan speaks at the Per Jacobsson Foundation Lecture on the 'Balance of Payments Imbalances' at the International Financial Corporation in Washington October 21, 2007. (Yuri Gripas/Reuters)Reuters – The U.S. subprime mortgage crisis was
an “accident waiting to happen” as a period of unprecedented
global growth seduced investors into underpricing risk, former
Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan argued in an article
published by The Wall Street Journal on Wednesday.

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