Greenspan: Disinflationary process may be reversing
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Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan on Wednesday said a rise in import prices of Chinese goods to the U.S. may be a signal the disinflationary process may be reversing.
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NEW YORK, September 8 (New Ratings) - The Federal Reserve Chairman, Alan Greenspan, reportedly said today that the US economy has regained its foothold, following a downturn during the summer months due to the soaring oil prices.
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Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan warns in his memoir that if the Fed is to keep the inflation rate between 1 and 2 percent in coming years it could be required to force interest rates much higher, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal.
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Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said in an interview that aired on Thursday the Fed's decision to cut interest rates this week had lowered the risk of a U.S. recession, although chances were still above one in three.
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The likelihood of the economy slipping into recession is at least 50 percent, former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan was quoted on Wednesday as saying.
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Famously opaque when he was chairman of the Federal Reserve, Alan Greenspan &#151; the author &#151; says he relished the opportunity to break out of "Fedspeak" and share his own insights about the nation's economy.
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U.S. Treasury prices turned abruptly  lower on Friday after Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan,  in a highly unusual move, said those unprepared for higher  interest rates stood to lose money.
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Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan on Wednesday said a rise in the cost of Chinese goods imported into the United States may be a signal a long disinflationary trend may be reversing.
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(InfoWorld) - Former Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan is hitting the airwaves promoting his new book, but his comments in recent interviews about the possibility of a recession might be scarier to IT folks than anything in the new tome. Greenspan, who has become a Federal Reserve chairman emeritus of sorts, might be more objective now that he is out of his federal role. He told the Wall Street Journal yesterday that he thought the probability of a recession is "slightly more than a third," up from merely a third, as he put it earlier this year. For IT professionals and CEOs of major software and hardware vendors, the prospect of a recession any time soon is downright daunting, given that memories of the 2001-2002 dot-com bust are still fresh. If housing price declines and the troubles with home mortgage lenders precipitate a longer economic downturn in the next year, the effect could roughly halve the 12-year cycle many economists track for upturns and downturns, some observers noted yesterday. "I'm certainly concerned with the housing downturn," said IT market analyst Jason Sajko, who studies government spending on IT for consulting firm Input. "But I don't see that creating something like what we felt in 2001 and 2002 so soon after then. I don't think we'll see an impact of that magnitude." Sajko and Input do frequent analysis of federal, state, and local spending on IT products and services. A month ago, Input said it was still projecting strong growth in state and local government spending in the United States on IT products and services into 2012, increasing from $43.9 billion in 2007 to $67.2 billion in 2012. That analysis was able to track the impact of the general economy, including the news in the last six months over housing market problems. In a small update to that analysis yesterday, Sajko said that state and local governments are also beginning to use a new catalog of IT vendors and prices called Schedule 70 provided by the U.S. General Services Administration. The GSA provides the catalog as a resource to thousands of state and local IT purchasing managers, Sajko explained. For Schedule 70, growth in IT spending among local and state governments will increase nearly 25 percent a year to 2012, exceeding $1 billion. While $1 billion is a small portion of the total spending in that category, it shows primarily a shift in the way spending will be done, not so much the overall level of spending related to the larger IT economy, Sajko said. Still, state and local spending on IT can be seen as a "more stable" area for IT spending in coming years than others, Sajko said. Several CEOs in recent days have said in interviews with Computerworld that they are carefully watching the direction of the general economy. They said they learned from the dot-com bust to adapt their products to the most successful market segments in order to weather downturns. For example, Maria Ligeti, CEO of startup React Systems in Roseville, Calif., said yesterday she has profited from observing the IT industry's upturns and downturns in Silicon Valley for more than 20 years while working in various roles. A new product and service her company is launching soon in emergency communications will be marketed to several vertical industry segments. She said the offerings have been fostered over several months by early adopters, she said. "We think we'll be somewhat immune" if there's a downturn, she said with confidence.
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Alan Greenspan had a lot to say Tuesday about financial market turmoil, but by confining his observations to past crises, he made sure he didn't roil markets like he did two weeks ago.
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Alan Greenspan, chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, said on Wednesday that the economic expansion had &quot;regained some traction&quot; after the slowdown this summer and
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FED'S `OPEN' SEASON: In the past decade, normally taciturn Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan has opened up to more scrutiny the process by which the central bank sets interest rate policy.
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ALAN GREENSPAN, Chairman of the US Federal Reserve, undercut lingering hopes of staging an operation to support the dollar at a meeting of bankers in Frankfurt yesterday
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The probability of a recession in the  United States has increased but is still less than 50/50,  former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said in comments  broadcast on Friday.
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Alan Greenspan, the chairman of the Federal Reserve, said that America's trade deficit might be poised to stabilize and even fall because of market pressures.
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Insatiable foreign demand for dollar  holdings will eventually fall and help reduce the massive  shortfall in the U.S. current account as investors diversify,  U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said on Friday in  remarks that landed hard on the dollar.
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TOKYO -- Former U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan told a Tokyo seminar on Thursday that he does not think economic slowdown in his country is "probable," toning down his earlier warning over a recession later this year.