Beware of Dr. Green and Mr. Span

US - Some pretty smart people are warning about the danger of playing with interest rates, comparing the nation's central bankers to Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Call these critics the Alan Greenspan bashers, writes the Economist magazine 5 July.

They deserve attention simply because they stand out among the sea of Greenspan worshipers in the financial media who think that the chairman of the Federal Reserve is the greatest thing since sliced bread.

"Of late, Dr. Green the gradualist has been

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