But nothing had been done to rectify the situation by the time of this writing.
The background of this is that in 1982 Alan Greenspan had chaired a committee that plagiarized a paper I’d written on the social security crisis of the early eighties. Because the committee’s report was considered so outstanding, he became chairman of the Federal Reserve. This story is told in greater detail, with scanned documentation pertaining to the plagiarism incident, on my web site:
davidgaus.com
Links to material about Alan Greenspan are at the right side of the screen, toward the bottom. Larua isn’t the only member of the Greenspan clan to try to marginalize me. Mr. Rick Greenspan, Athletics Director of Indiana University has also been involved. To read more about that click on “Rick Greenspan in the people index of Screen A of my web site. His name is at the bottom left of the screen.
Briefly, since publication of the Greenspan Committee’s report in 1983, my status has, to a considerable extent, been that of an enslaved individual. I haven’t been allowed to make any money, except for brief day-labor stints when I was younger. That’s despite the fact that I’ve been reasonably productive and have been listed five times in Who’s Who in America.
During this long period I’ve been made use of by government and business people so that they could make money or obtain other benefits for themselves. For example, a movie based on my persona was shot by Universal Studios in Chicago in the early eighties. At the time this document was being written, there were two individuals with strong connections to the University of Chicago on the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve. That board has only five members. The appearance is that President Bush was blackmailed into appointing those two men. That doesn’t say much about the competence of a board which is supposed to be making important decisions.
Both the city of Chicago and the university seem to have deliberately traded in both my reputation and my earning potential in order to curry favor with government and other paymasters.
There’s also the question of involvement by Chicago’s extensive criminal element in my situation. I won’t go into that here, but there’s material about that on my web site.
In 2007 the “Unseen Hand” of economic theory intervened to modify the general economic situation and vindicate some of my protests. There were serious problems in the stock market.
Those problems were mostly the legacy of decisions made during Alan Greenspan’s tenure as Fed chair.
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Boss Tweed: the man with a money bag for a head.
The greatest-ever American political cartoon, as drawn by Thomas Nast, the greatest of all American political cartoonists.
Sadly, it's often just the thing to insert into an essay about this or that aspect of contemporary American life