Panderer to Power: The Untold Story of How Alan Greenspan Enriched Wall Street and Left a Legacy of Recession

by Frederick Sheehan

  The Trouble with Prosperity (James Grant), 125

  Truman, Harry, 20

  Tuccille, Jerome, 27, 83, 96

  Turner Broadcasting, 80

  “2 and 28” mortgages, 325

  Tyco International, 248

  U

  uBid, 174

  Uchitelle, Louis, 117–119

  Unemployment:

  in 1970s, 309

  in 1980s, 77

  in early 2000s, 308

  and recession of early 1990s, 127

  United Services Advisors, 130

  University of Chicago, 26, 37, 42, 334 Urban, David, 320

  U.S. News and World Report, 64

  U.S. Treasuries:

  and 1987 stock market crash, 113 and 1990s recession, 122

  inflation-indexed bonds, 147 speculation with, 125–126

  yields on, 20, 72, 126, 128, 287

  V

  VA Linux, 211

  Vanderbilt, Gloria, 74

  Vanguard Group, 130

  Verbal inflation, 63–64

  Vinik, Jeff, 140

  Volcker, Paul, 66, 68, 76, 79, 82–83,

  95, 96, 112–113, 115, 121, 191,

  201, 221, 346–348

  Volkswagen, 49, 308–309

  Vreeland, Diana, 75

  W

  Wachovia Mortgage, 328

  Wall Street:

  in the 1960s, 33

  “buy” recommendations of, 178 and economic slowdown of

  2000, 232

  prior to 1950s, 19–20

  real estate investments, 273–274

  Wall Street Journal, 39, 82, 96, 133,

  141,157, 161, 159, 195, 198, 207,

  222, 233, 238, 243, 244, 274, 280,

  293, 299, 319, 338, 345, 347–348, Walters, Barbara, 5, 31, 57, 75

  Warehouse lines of credit (banks to mortgage lenders), 275

  Warsh, Kevin, 334

  Washington Times, 300

  Washington Post, 280

  Washington University, 42

  Wasserstein Perella, 116

  Wealth:

  household, 258, 260, 265

  transfer of, 290

  and unsound business

  structures, 352

  Weidenbaum, Murray, 42, 60

  Weil, Simone, 360–365

  Weill, Sandy, 356

  Westenhiser, Jamie, 295

  Westmoreland, William, 37

  White, Theodore H., 74–75

  Whole Foods Market, 355

  Wigmore, Barrie, 81, 88–89 Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, 320 Williams, John, 149, 151–152 Wolfensohn, James, 217

  Wolff, Michael, 173–174

  Wood, Christopher, 201

  Woodward, Bob, 171, 236

  WorldCom, 248

  Wriston, Walter, 78

  X

  Xerox, 101

  Y

  Y2K problem, 210–211,

  215–216

  Yellen, Janet, 138, 171, 240, 253

  Z

  Zeckendorf, William, 23, 353, 355 Zeckendorf, William, III, 356 Zell, Sam, 311, 320, 325

  Zipkin, Jerry, 75

  Zola, Émile, 265