1.0 link 136576 <![CDATA[Three leaders who could follow Greenspan and do a 180 for the environment]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/daniel-kessler/three-people-who-should-f_b_136576.html In an extraordinary moment of candor last week, Alan Greenspan told a Congressional committee that he no longer believes that the financial system works by self-regulation and that at times the system fails by not purging itself of its own excesses. The testimony was remarkable because Greenspan has long been the living embodiment of so-called "free market capitalism." His pronouncement is nothing less than a complete 180-turn and shows what can happen when reality violently collides with ideology.

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