Greenspan’s response to the horrific collapse of the tech bubble in 2000–2001 was characteristic and predictable. More than $5 trillion worth of wealth had been destroyed in worthless tech stocks, but instead of letting investors feel the pain they deserved, Greenspan did what he had always done: he flooded the market with money all over again and inflated a new bubble. Only this was the biggest “Greenspan put” of all: in the wake of the tech bubble he cut rates eleven consecutive times, all the way down to 1 percent, an all-time low, and began talking out loud about housing and mortgages as
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