The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World - Alan Greenspan
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February 24, 2008
The most publicized business book of the year was also among the most provocative. Former Fed chief Alan Greenspan’s The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World (Penguin Press) made headlines with its scorn for the current Administration’s economics, GOP congressmen, and Richard Nixon. The volume is also a memoir of Greenspan’s life, from his boyhood in New York to leadership of the world’s most powerful central bank. But the book’s true value lies in its second half, where the author offers his take on everything from Russia to financial regulation and the inevitable slowdown of globalization. Such well-informed musings offer much more food for thought than the usual Washington memoir.
