WSJ report, 2010.

Mr Greenspan's "simmer down" quote, vintage 2003, here. And he said it again for good measure two years later adding, with the remarkable prescience that has become his hallmark, that "prices could even decrease".

Little sign in those speeches of all that political pressure to extend credit which he referred to yesterday.

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