Alan Greenspan says Recession will be worst since 1930's

@jakeb1 (562)
United States
February 18, 2009 4:28pm CST
Did anyone read what Alan Greenspan said about the economy and this recession? If you don't know who he is, he used to be the Federal Reserve Chairman in the 90's until a couple years ago when Bernanke took his place. He said: "The Global Recession will be the longest and deepest since 1930's". What does anyone think about this, does it scare anybody? Greenspan also said that: "To stabilize the American banking system and restore normal lending, additional TARP funds will be required". Do you agree with him or disagree with him?
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@Taskr36 (13963)
• United States
19 Feb 09
It scares me that there are people dumb enough to believe this. Unemployment hit a high of 20% in the 30's. Right now it's still under 8%. Roosevelt exacerbated an already big problem that could have worked itself out more easily if it weren't for his policies. I don't think it could ever get as bad as it was then, but with Obama dumping billions into pet projects there's a chance it will get worse, just nothing like the Great Depression. In the 80's unemployment hit around 10%. We're not there yet, but there is a chance that Obama could get us there.
• United States
19 Feb 09
That was different times Taskr we have people scamming all the damn investors for billions of dollars. How does one trust the money to make the economy grow? Think of it as being a parent your child lies to you and you know it takes time to once again trust them. This is the same circumstances. Will you put your money in the stocks now? How about 6 months from now? Obama is not getting us there Thank all the crooks, Liars and thieves from government to billionaires. What is going to get us there is the mistrust that americans have for other americans. It seems many try to blame Obama a single man of all the woes going on and it hasn't even been thirty days yet. I respect how you feel about the bailout but I myself believe that Obama was the one with the balls to try and stop the bleeding and start patching things up. You have to stop the bleeding. If the stimulous stops the bleeding without any new jobs created then that is millions of jobs saved.
• United States
19 Feb 09
I find his statment very interesting, Mr. Greenspan is considered to be the brightest mind in economics. But, as with many people who are considered to be the best in their field only time shows how good they really were. And, Greenspan's recent history isn't looking very good right now. Mr. Greenspan said that ARM's were a better idea than Fix Rate mortgages. Does this sound like a great idea today?
• United States
19 Feb 09
ARM's were a great idea but what happened was greedy businesses and greedy people took out to much on there homes. Hence the big ATM machine. Putting the values of peoples homes far higher than their actual worth. The one thing alot of american have lost along the line are honestly and integrity. You had first time homebuyers buying homes, not that they all had bad credit some just didn't have any. For some reason we all make the assumption that people wanted to fail. The truth of the matter is many wanted to keep the dream home they had and worked really hard. They were told that after a couple of years you can refi into a nice fixed rate. The whole time they were creating the bubble themselves, not the consumer but the crooked mortgage companies with their appraisers. Some people were just plain ignorant moving into a very expensive home they knew they could never afford, but that is not the majority of them. Have you ever asked why there are so many millionaires and billionaires? Scams Scams Scams!
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@xParanoiax (6987)
• United States
19 Feb 09
I don't agree with him on what we can do. He's been proven wrong by many accounts where methods are concerned. Smarter people have been saying the same thing, though, in comparison to predicting how much worse our times may turn out to be once history's done with us. Besides, if it's worse than the 30's...wouldn't that make it a Depression...not a recession?