[78-L] The economy is Stan Getz's fault!

[Kristjan Saag]

On the other hand you should be glad it wasn't Stan who became Federal 
Reserve Chairman...
Kristjan

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> The daily Stockholm newspaper?Dagens Nyheter Oct 14 2008 edition, 
> concluded that Stan Getz was ?partly to blame for the financial crisis now 
> plaguing the world. The ?reason: After an article in the New York Times
> ?"Taking a hard new look at a Greenspan legacy"
>
> http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/09/business/economy/09greenspan.html?em
>
> ?The Swedish paper concluded that things might have been different?had 
> Greenspan pursued a musical career.
>
> ? Turning to music and baseball
>
> ?ALAN GREENSPAN: Then, I decided that baseball was my thing. And I??
> was actually getting very good, but at the age of 14, I hit a??
> plateau and I never improved.
>
> ?JIM LEHRER: You were a left-hander, first baseman, right?
>
> ?ALAN GREENSPAN: I was a left-handed first baseman. I hit the ball??
> pretty well. Then, I got into music, and I became a professional??
> musician for a couple of years.
>
> ?JIM LEHRER: Played the clarinet...
>
> ?ALAN GREENSPAN: Clarinet, saxophone, flute, bass clarinet.
>
> ?JIM LEHRER: Which one did you enjoy the most?
>
> ?ALAN GREENSPAN: I actually enjoyed the clarinet the best, but I was??
> a fairly good amateur, but a moderate professional. But what really??
> did me in is I had, as an amateur, had to play next to Stan Getz. I??
> was 16; he was 15. I decided, "Do I really want to be in this??
> business?"
>
> ?JIM LEHRER: Why, because he was so good?
>
> ?ALAN GREENSPAN: Oh, my god.
>
> ?JIM LEHRER: Was he really good?
>
> ?ALAN GREENSPAN: And he was one of the really historic famous sax??
> players. And the best economic decision I ever made in my life was??
> to decide to leave the music business and go into economics.
>
>
> Cary Ginell
>
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