Table of Contents
Preface xi
Introduction: "He Has Set a Standard" 1
Book I The Ideologue
1 The Feeling of a Conqueror 13
2 The Un-Keynesian 26
3 The Rebirth of Money 39
4 Ayn Rand's Undertaker 58
5 Against the New Frontier 76
Book II The Politician
6 A Libertarian for Nixon 101
7 Do-Nothingism 128
8 "A MINORITY OF ONE" 155
9 Between Thatcher and Kissinger 178
10 The First Housing Conundrum 208
11 Republican Dreamers 228
12 "Do We Really Need the Fed?" 255
13 A Republican Volcker 282
14 Without the Cigar 305
Book III The Central Banker
15 "Greenspan's Irrelevant" 327
16 Light Black Monday 340
17 The Gun-Shy Chairman 365
18 "You're the Big Guru" 391
19 Maestro 418
20 Alan Versus Alan 446
21 The Zipswitch Chairman 465
22 Irrational Exuberance 482
23 "The Best Economy I've Ever Seen" 509
24 "Uncle Alan Will Take Care of Us" 528
25 Alan.Com 549
26 "A Very Surreal Environment" 569
27 Lowflation 593
28 The Four Winds 615
29 "I Found a Flaw" 648
Conclusion: The Blind Roller Skater 672
Acknowledgments 687
Appendix: The Greenspan Effect 691
Notes 695
Image Credits 757
Index 759