Alan Greenspan

The price of bitcoin soared above the $10,000 mark last week only to cross the $13,000 level Wednesday. Naturally, the debate over bitcoin's true value will intensify in 2018 and beyond with some experts expecting the digital currency to hit $40,000 and others expecting it to reach zero...

A bond is an asset class meant for those looking for a relatively safer investment avenue. Usually, an investor adds bonds to his portfolio to mitigate any loss stemming from a decline in equities. As always, with less risk comes fewer returns. Therefore, returns from bonds most often trail the...

The NYSE Bitcoin Index is up another 189 percent so far in 2017, as bitcoin continues to rise in popularity among traders. Some bitcoin investors see the cryptocurrency as a safe haven against inflation and pricey stocks and bonds. Others see it simply as a short-term momentum trade. But does...

With the S&P 500 trading within a stone’s throw of all-time highs and Goldman Sachs recently drawing calculated comparisons between leading tech stocks today to those leading the dot-com bubble in 2000, investors are growing increasingly concerned that the stock market may once again be...

"Irrational Exuberance," the phrase made popular by former Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan has come to haunt the markets once more. The markets have been on an extended rally, in place since the economy exited the Great Recession in 2009. Rampaging Bull Officially, the recession ended in...

There’s no question that Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen is under a huge amount of pressure to determine the right time to raise interest rates following the worst U.S. recession since the Great Depression. Raising interest rates too quickly could derail the economy’s fragile...

For the first time ever, the four living U.S. Federal Reserve Chairs, Janet Yellen, Ben Bernanke, Alan Greenspan and Paul Volcker, will be appearing together onstage at an event hosted by the International House. The world will be watching closely to see what these economic leaders have to say...

With significant amount of money infused into the markets through quantitative easing, first in the United States and then in Europe and Japan, several investors have raised concerns over there is a bubble brewing in asset prices, especially bonds. According to Former Federal Reserve Chairman...

It is official. We are all just screwed. Janet Yellen told us that stocks are overvalued and potentially dangerous. Warren Buffett said that if interest rates go higher we will find that current stock valuations are high. Of course interest rates have moved higher all over the world as bonds have...

Dr. Mikhail Melnik, Bloomberg Economist and Professor at Kennesaw State University, recently spoke to Benzinga about the economic situation in Greece. Dr. Melnik said that he tended to agree with recent comments comments from Alan Greenspan and George Soros. "I do believe that the situation in...

When Ben Bernanke succeeded Alan Greenspan as chairman of the Federal Reserve Board in February 2006, the economy seemed to growing smoothly. Unemployment was under 5 percent. Little did the former Princeton economics professor know what was to befall him. Within 18 months, it became clear a...

Former chairman of the Federal Reserve Alan Greenspan appeared on CNBC's Squawk Box Friday morning, where he discussed the state of the jobs market as he sees it as well as what can be done to help boost competitiveness and activity. “You're looking at an issue really of the working age...

This weekend in Barron's online: the case for a Great Stagnation, as well as the prospects for Kohl's, Furmanite, Walgreen and more. Cover Story "Slowing to a Crawl" by Jonathan R. Laing. The United States may be headed for decades of slow growth, says Barron's in this week's cover story. The...

On the way to completing his new book, The Map and the Territory, Risk, Human Nature, and the Future of Forecasting, former Federal Reserve Chairman, Alan Greenspan had an epiphany. The epiphany, which Greenspan told The Wall Street Journal, “Upended my view of how the world works,” mostly...