Rational exuberance?
04/11/2025
2 min
In 1996, Alan Greenspan, then chairman of the US Federal Reserve, delivered a now-famous speech to the American Enterprise Institute, warning against the risk of "irrational exuberance." He denounced the stock market euphoria fueled by the internet revolution ...
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