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The Reckoning: Taking Hard New Look at a Greenspan Legacy

Oct. 8, 2008
The deregulation and use of derivatives long had a great supporter in the person of Alan Greenspan.
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Snigdha Nandipati of San Diego, California watches confetti rain down as she wins the two-day Scripps National Spelling Bee championship, May 31, 2012, in National Harbor, Maryland. Nandipati successfully spelled the word .* guetapens *, meaning to lure or ambush. UPI/Mike Theiler