Fed’s Poor Data, Not Greed, Drove Wall Street Off Cliff: Books

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Pick a rogue, any rogue: Villains pervade the story of the worst financial train wreck since 1929.

Yet economist William A. Barnett resists the urge to wag a scolding finger at greedy bankers, feckless homebuyers or even Alan Greenspan, whom he calls a salesman, not a monetary maestro.