greenspan is a fucking brilliant man... The problem with men of such brilliance is that they make very true, very concrete statements like these expecting others to understand, or to ask about, all the issues that such an action might take and the uncertainties of the policy... A statement like that, in the mind of a person who has enough knowledge of economics to support it, is a sound statement to make. In the mind of the economically uneducated, it is beaten to death with ignorance and turned into a ron paul 2012 ad.