Does the Fed use selective language to disguise an inflationary crisis?
*Financial Times, by Krishna Guha, September 16, 2007:
"Mr Greenspan said he would expect 'as a minimum, large
single-digit' percentage declines in US house prices from peak to
trough and added that he would not be surprised if the fall was 'in
double digits.'
Mr Greenspan said house prices were probably already down about 2-3 per
cent from their peak on a national level.
However, he cautioned that it was very difficult to predict how large
the ultimate decline would be.
As Fed chairman, Mr Greenspan had talked about 'froth' in the housing
sector, but never said there was a bubble in the market as a whole. His
successor Ben Bernanke has also avoided the word 'bubble.'
But Mr Greenspan told the FT that froth 'was a euphemism for a bubble.'
He said he still thought froth – a collection of bubbles – was a better
description, because of the variation in house price appreciation in
different local housing markets. But he said 'all the froth bubbles add
up to an aggregate bubble.'
The former Fed chairman said the current turmoil in financial markets
was 'an accident waiting to happen.'"
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