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rampartd

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4. sen waxman asked him a good question after the 2008 failure of capitalism ....

Reply to UpInArms (Original post)

Mon Jun 22, 2026, 09:57 AM

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reported here by the ayn rand cult site "atlas society."

https://www.atlassociety.org/post/the-alan-greenspan-confession

The crucial moment came when Waxman asked Greenspan, "You found your view of the world, your ideology, was not right, it was not working?"

"Absolutely, precisely," Greenspan replied, going on to say: "You know, that's precisely the reason I was shocked, because I have been going more than 40 years or more with very considerable evidence that it was working considerably well."

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