WALL STREET shuddered yesterday after Alan Greenspan, the United States’ central banker, warned American homebuyers that they risk a crash if they continue to drive property prices higher.
He said that the US house-price spiral had become an economic imbalance, threatening stability like the country’s trade gap or its budget deficit.
Alan Greenspan
dropped the above bombshell yesterday during his 2005 Cover Your Butt Farewell Tour.
In a pre-retirement speech to fellow central bankers at Jackson Hole, Wyoming, Mr Greenspan said that people were investing in houses as if they were a one-way bet, not allowing for the risk of price falls. He said “history had not dealt kindly” with investors who kept ignoring risks.
Now, these are the guys who established the policies which lead to our current conditions. If they are such monetary geniuses, shouldn't they have seen this coming?
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