Published Date:
12 December 2007
NO-ONE has ever accused Gordon Brown of irrational exuberance before. Observers would say he was more likely to be teetering on the brink of manic depression than over-the-top optimism. But the man whose critics pin him down as a forlorn Fifer actually has some worrying tendencies to look on the bright side.
Irrational exuberance was the phrase coined by Alan Greenspan, the former Federal Reserve chief, to describe the euphoria surrounding the dotcom bubble. (Never mind the fact that the guru of US economists was responsible for this with his rampant rat...
The full article contains 940 words and appears in The Scotsman newspaper.
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Last Updated:
11 December 2007 9:49 PM
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Source:
The Scotsman
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Location:
Edinburgh
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