Greenspan says economy coping well despite oil

Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan has said that high oil prices could hamper -- but not derail -- economic growth in the United States this year.

In a letter to the Joint Economic Committee of the US Congress which was released on Monday, Greenspan said that the rise in oil prices since the end of 2003 probably shaved economic growth by around three-fourths of a percentage point this year after having reduced growth by about one-half point last year.

However, he said the US economy "seems to

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