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August 9, 2023

Is there any chance that the stimulus plan won’t cause terrible inflation and a great cost to taxpayers?

Reuters, by Kristina Cooke in
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“Recession will be worst since 1930s: Greenspan

Former U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said on Tuesday the current global recession will ‘surely be the longest and deepest’ since the 1930s and more government rescue funds are needed to stabilize the U.S. financial system.

‘To stabilize the American banking system and restore normal lending, additional TARP funds will be required,’ Greenspan said in a speech to the Economic Club of New York. The U.S. Treasury’s Troubled Asset Relief Program designed to help bail out banks has been partially successful, he said.

Despite his prognosis on the current downturn, Greenspan said the pace of economic deterioration ‘cannot persist indefinitely.’

He reiterated, however, that a housing recovery is a necessary condition for the end of the financial crisis, and said that ‘the prospect of stable home prices remains many months in the future.’

The stock market, meanwhile, is being suppressed by ‘a degree of fear not experienced since the early 20th century,’ Greenspan said. ‘Certainly by any historical measure, world stock prices are cheap. But as history also counsels, they could get a lot cheaper before they turn.’

A recovery in the equity market driven by lessening fear could be ‘a seminal turning point of the current crisis,’ he said.

Citing the Japanese experience of the 1990s, Greenspan said U.S. authorities need to assure the repair of the financial system before major fiscal stimulus takes hold.

‘Unless we are successful at that, in my judgment, the positive impact of a fiscal stimulus will peter out after its scheduled completion,’ he said.

He said the real test of fiscal stimulus is whether it ‘primes the pump’ for private demand.

Greenspan said the Federal Reserve’s myriad emergency lending programs and the Treasury’s TARP funds have the potential of being unwound eventually without leading to inflation or great cost to the taxpayer.

He warned, however, that politics could be an obstacle.”

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