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Greenspan's Laissez Fairy Tale: How Flawed Economic Theories Fail to Account for Financial Fraudsters

William K. Black, Benzinga. January 16, 2012.

Alan Greenspan touted 'reputation' as the characteristic that made possible trust and free markets. He was dead wrong.

Alan Greenspan Is Once Again Banging the Drum for Deregulation -- Is he Just Crazy?

Orson Aguilar, Preeti Vissa, AlterNet. April 5, 2011.

The free-market fundamentalists who brought us economic collapse are now frantically rewriting history in an attempt to justify their mistakes and head off effective regulation.

The Flaw in the System: The Bankers Don't Care About the Banks

Cenk Uygur, The Young Turks. March 3, 2009.

The self-interest of bank executives that led to our financial crisis.

Rahm Emanuel Roasts Stephen Colbert for Charity

Staff, Huffington Post. November 15, 2008.

Obama's new chief of staff takes on his pseudo-nemesis, the host of the Colbert Report.

The Five Most Wanted Rip-off Artists from Wall Street and Washington

Jim Hightower, Hightower Lowdown. November 3, 2008.

Our economy didn't melt down, it was taken down the unbridled greed of economic elites, enabled by their political courtesans in Washington.

Alan Greenspan: The Boy in the Bubble

Dean Baker, TruthOut.org. December 20, 2007.

Even long-time Greenspan watchers had to be impressed by his latest effort at self-vindication.

Alan Greenspan and the Myth of the True Believer

Naomi Klein, The Nation. September 29, 2007.

Greenspan's new autobiography sheds light on what motivates hard-right political leaders to apply brutal economic shock therapy.

Naomi Klein Debates Alan Greenspan

Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!. September 25, 2007.

Naomi Klein goes head to head with Alan Greenspan on the Iraq war, Bush's tax cuts, economic populism, crony capitalism and more.