Greenspan Warns Good Times Are Over

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Tuesday October 02, 2007

Alan Greenspan has announced the end of the good times for the world economy and that the economic future is a gloomy one, due to many factors including a slow down in the US economy which will have repercussions across the globe.

Greenspan predicted the boom of the 90’s following a "new economy",a high-tec boost to productivity whose effects have been prolonged by the economic rise of China although he now claims that these have only given a temporary respite to the economy

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He warns that government intervention to counteract the economic slowdown often do more harm than good citing the Bank of England intervention to help Northern Rock, a move that triggered the run on the bank.

Source: news.bbc.co.uk