{"id":444084,"date":"2010-03-18T08:49:02","date_gmt":"2010-03-18T12:49:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/economics\/2010\/03\/18\/fisher-on-greenspan-and-the-irrational-exuberance-bull\/"},"modified":"2010-03-18T08:49:02","modified_gmt":"2010-03-18T12:49:02","slug":"fisher-on-greenspan-and-the-irrational-exuberance-bull","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/444084","title":{"rendered":"Fisher on Greenspan and the Irrational Exuberance Bull"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At a forum on the euro and the dollar sponsored by the Dallas Federal Reserve, its president <strong>Richard Fisher<\/strong> was asked about his view of former Fed Chairman <strong>Alan Greenspan<\/strong>. Fisher said he wouldn\u0092t comment &#8212; though he did mention that he had never been able to finish \u0093Atlas Shrugged,\u0094 Greenspan mentor <strong>Ayn Rand<\/strong>\u0092s paean to capitalism<\/p>\n<table class=\"imgrgtsum\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" width=\"76\" align=\"right\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/media\/fisher_A_20090723164134.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"76\" height=\"76\" align=\"right\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"medcptnocrd\">Fisher<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>He did, however, name the 2,500-pound red Swiss breeding bull on his East Texas farm &#8220;Irrational Exuberance&#8221; in reference to Greenspan\u0092s famous 1996 comment that prompted a slump in stock markets around the world.<\/p>\n<p>After the pop of the real-estate bubble and the proceeding financial crisis, Fisher said Greenspan returned a picture of the bull. Inscribed was a note from Greenspan: &#8220;Dear Richard: Irrational exuberance is truly a lot of bull,&#8221; Fisher said, adding, &#8220;It&#8217;s in my office if anyone wants to see.\u0094<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/VCkTmSFzDpyjpAvG7-YSFJ-dVDM\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/VCkTmSFzDpyjpAvG7-YSFJ-dVDM\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/VCkTmSFzDpyjpAvG7-YSFJ-dVDM\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/VCkTmSFzDpyjpAvG7-YSFJ-dVDM\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/wsj\/economics\/feed?a=5wqmXUKhKig:COOCaU5F-a8:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/wsj\/economics\/feed?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/wsj\/economics\/feed?a=5wqmXUKhKig:COOCaU5F-a8:F7zBnMyn0Lo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/wsj\/economics\/feed?i=5wqmXUKhKig:COOCaU5F-a8:F7zBnMyn0Lo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/wsj\/economics\/feed?a=5wqmXUKhKig:COOCaU5F-a8:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/wsj\/economics\/feed?i=5wqmXUKhKig:COOCaU5F-a8:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/wsj\/economics\/feed?a=5wqmXUKhKig:COOCaU5F-a8:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/wsj\/economics\/feed?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/wsj\/economics\/feed\/~4\/5wqmXUKhKig\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At a forum on the euro and the dollar sponsored by the Dallas Federal Reserve, its president Richard Fisher was asked about his view of former Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan. Fisher said he wouldn\u0092t comment &#8212; though he did mention that he had never been able to finish \u0093Atlas Shrugged,\u0094 Greenspan mentor Ayn Rand\u0092s paean [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":850,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-444084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/850"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=444084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444084\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=444084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}