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Author:

Auerbach, Robert D.

Title:

Deception and abuse at the Fed : Henry B. Gonzalez battles Alan Greenspan's Bank / Robert D. Auerbach.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publisher:

University of Texas Press,

Copyright Date:

2008

Description:

xii, 271 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.)
Governmental investigations--United States--Case studies.
Greenspan, Alan,--1926-
Gonzalez, Henry B.--(Henry Barbosa),--1916-2000.

Notes:

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.

ISBN:

0292717857 (cl. : alk. paper)
9780292717855 (cl. : alk. paper)

LCCN:

2007051720

Locations:

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

N5UX522 -- University of Iowa Law Library (Iowa City)