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Posted AT 6:12 AM EST on 05/10/07

Do central bankers still matter?

BARRIE MCKENNA

From Friday's Globe and Mail

WASHINGTON — During the last years of his tenure at the U.S. Federal Reserve Board, Alan Greenspan was a deeply troubled central banker.For two years, he and his Fed colleagues had aggressively pushed up short-term interest rates to cool the booming economy and take some of the froth out of the housing market. From mid-2004 to mid-2006, they ratcheted up the bank's key short-term rate to 5.25 per cent from a record low of 1 per cent.

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