Yesterday Greenspan seemed to admit he was wrong, or rather that the world wasn't behaving as he anticipated it would and that his anti-regulation, free-market ideology has a "flaw." He told a House committee Thursday that the banking and housing crisis is a "once-in-a-century credit tsunami."
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Here's a transcript of the testimony and others at the Hearing page on the Oversight & Government Reform committee website.
Here's a round up of coverage on Greenspan's testimony:
- Live blogging by the NYTimes' DealBook
- The New York Times
- The Wall Street Journal – includes video as well as links to historical Greenspan coverage from the WSJ archives.
- Bloomberg
- The Financial Times
- NPR – link to listen to radio coverage from Morning Edition as well as an article
- New York Magazine's irreverent Daily Intel (a personal favorite, add to your feed reader!)