Includes bibliographical references (p. [255]-260) and index.
Contents:
Hitting a tank with a stick -- The Burns Fed : price controls, inflation, and the Watergate cover up with a distinguished professor at the helm -- The master of garblements -- Spinning mountains into molehills -- Valuable secrets and the return of Greenspan's 'prophetic touch' -- The seventeen year lie -- Corrupted airplanes and computer mice -- Standing in the door against civil rights -- When five hundred economists are not enough -- The myth of political virginity -- Pricking the stock market bubble and other Greenspan policies -- Bring the Fed into the democracy -- Appendix: Excerpts from Waste and abuse in the Federal Reserve's payment system.
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