Enganado durante 40 anos.

«"Cometi um erro ao confiar que o livre mercado pode regular-se a si próprio sem a supervisão da administração", afirmou o homem que esteve 18 anos ao comando da Fed.» (Público)

Greenspan explains the Credit Crisis

Greenspan: It's a 'credit tsunami' ( CNN)

Greenspan tells Congress he's shocked by credit crunch (CBS)

Alan Greenspan "Shocked" At Credit System Breakdown (The Post Chronicle)

Greenspan warns unemployment will rise further (AP Associated Press)

He added that recovery in the US housing market was "many months" away. (BBC)

Alan Greenspan foi de 11 de agosto de 1987 até 31 de janeiro de 2006 presidente do Federal Reserve dos Estados Unidos da América. (Wikipédia)

Em nenhuma das notícias é referido o facto de ele ter admitido que se regeu baseado numa ideologia errada.

Mas faltava um . . .

Referring to his free-market ideology, Mr. Greenspan added: “I have found a flaw. I don’t know how significant or permanent it is. But I have been very distressed by that fact.”

Mr. Waxman pressed the former Fed chair to clarify his words. “In other words, you found that your view of the world, your ideology, was not right, it was not working,” Mr. Waxman said.

“Absolutely, precisely,” Mr. Greenspan replied. “You know, that’s precisely the reason I was shocked, because I have been going for 40 years or more with very considerable evidence that it was working exceptionally well.” (The New York Times)