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An authoritative, well-documented exposé of abuses of power at the U.S. Federal Reserve Bank (the Fed) during the tenure of renowned chairman, Alan Greenspan.

Table of Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Chapter 1. Hitting a Tank with a Stick
  • Chapter 2. The Burns Fed: Price Controls, Inflation, and the Watergate Cover-up with a Distinguished Professor at the Helm
  • Chapter 3. The Master of Garblements
  • Chapter 4. Spinning Mountains into Molehills
  • Chapter 5. Valuable Secrets and the Return of Greenspan's "Prophetic Touch"
  • Chapter 6. The Seventeen-Year Lie
  • Chapter 7. Corrupted Airplanes and Computer Mice
  • Chapter 8. Standing in the Door against Civil Rights
  • Chapter 9. When Five Hundred Economists Are Not Enough
  • Chapter 10. The Myth of Political Virginity
  • Chapter 11. Pricking the Stock Market Bubble and Other Greenspan Policies
  • Chapter 12. Bring the Fed into the Democracy
  • Appendix: Excerpts from Waste and Abuse in the Federal Reserve's Payment System
  • Notes
  • Glossary
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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      Publisher: University of Texas Press
      Publication Date: 01/05/2008
      ISBN13: 9780292717855, 978-0292717855
      ISBN10: 0292717857
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      An authoritative, well-documented exposé of abuses of power at the U.S. Federal Reserve Bank (the Fed) during the tenure of renowned chairman, Alan Greenspan.

      Table of Contents
      • Acknowledgments
      • Chapter 1. Hitting a Tank with a Stick
      • Chapter 2. The Burns Fed: Price Controls, Inflation, and the Watergate Cover-up with a Distinguished Professor at the Helm
      • Chapter 3. The Master of Garblements
      • Chapter 4. Spinning Mountains into Molehills
      • Chapter 5. Valuable Secrets and the Return of Greenspan's "Prophetic Touch"
      • Chapter 6. The Seventeen-Year Lie
      • Chapter 7. Corrupted Airplanes and Computer Mice
      • Chapter 8. Standing in the Door against Civil Rights
      • Chapter 9. When Five Hundred Economists Are Not Enough
      • Chapter 10. The Myth of Political Virginity
      • Chapter 11. Pricking the Stock Market Bubble and Other Greenspan Policies
      • Chapter 12. Bring the Fed into the Democracy
      • Appendix: Excerpts from Waste and Abuse in the Federal Reserve's Payment System
      • Notes
      • Glossary
      • Bibliography
      • Index

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