His big failing is that he hasn't provided the Fed with a replicable method of re-creating Alan Greenspan. He hasn't left behind an institutional framework that will guide his successor.
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The borrowing paid for the imports that the United States bought from countries that were suffering from deep recessions and pulled them out of those recessions.
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They'll want to see him tested, ... Greenspan had, in a sense, the good fortune that there was a crisis (Black Monday, Oct. 19, when the Dow lost more than 20) within the two months of the time he acceded to the chairmanship, and he handled the crisis very well. That established him in the market as a credible chairman.
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The name that's on the economy is Greenspan. If you want to step back and say Gore's responsible, it's hard to make that connection.
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