Hedge Fund Manager Scott Walters' Hilarious And Wonderful Alan Greenspan Portrait

First Posted: 06/08/10 06:12 AM ET Updated: 05/25/11 05:05 PM ET

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Hedge fund manager Scott Walters commissioned a portrait of Alan Greenspan in 2005, which now hangs in his office at MaxCapital Markets. Of the Greenspan in the painting, Walters told The Business Insider: "He is meant to look like a confused old man, unsure of where he is going, riding the bull market (the bull) all wrong. He is looking over his shoulder, not into the past but into the future..ie. he is clueless of how it should be done."

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