大师的真面目被揭穿了!
作者批评“格林斯潘看跌期权”,认为美联储的流动性干预助长了华尔街对廉价信贷投机的成瘾。
- 美联储的流动性干预创造了一个被称为‘格林斯潘看跌期权’的有问题的激励结构。
- 廉价信贷和道德风险已将自由企业资本主义变质为华尔街的投机行为。
“ Greenspan had been Fed Chairman for just 69 days when the stock market crashed on October 19, 1987 — Black Monday. The Dow Jones fell 22.6% in a single session, the largest single-day percentage decline in history. Greenspan’s response was swift and decisive: the Fed flooded the system with liquidity, issuing a one-sentence statement guaranteeing its readiness to ‘serve as a source of liquidity to support the economic and financial system.’
In the immediate term, the intervention was arguably appropriate. But it planted a seed that would grow into a deeply problematic incentive structure. The financial community absorbed a critical lesson: the Federal Reserve under Greenspan would not allow serious market dislocations to run their natural course. The concept later codified as ‘the Greenspan Put’ — the market’s understanding that the Fed would cut rates and inject liquidity whenever equities fell significantly — was born.”
I wrote a two parts anyone analysis on Wall Street’s greatest “ Libertarian Maestro.”
In my opinion, His greatest betrayal was single handily denaturing the core values of “ free enterprise Capitalism” into a putrid pseudo intellectual slop designed to feed Wall Street’s addiction to easy-credit financed speculative endeavors. The Maestro of “ moral hazard” lives on today; hopefully not for eternity.
Nice work

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