On the afternoon of September 11, 2001, I was flying back to Washington on Swissair Flight 128, returning home from a routine international bankers' meeting in Switzerland. I'd been moving about the cabin when the chief of the security detail that escorted me on trips abroad, Bob Agnew, stopped me in the aisle. Bob is an ex-Secret Service man, friendly but not especially talkative. At that moment, he was looking grim. | ALAN GREENSPAN THE AGE OF TURBULENCE ADVENTURES IN A NEW WORLD THE PENGUIN PRESS NEW YORK 2 0 0 7 THE PENGUIN PRESS Published by the Penguin Group Penguin Group USA Inc. 375 Hudson Street New York New York 10014 . Penguin Group Canada 90 Eglinton Avenue East Suite 700 Toronto Ontario Canada M4P 2Y3 a division of Pearson Penguin Canada Inc. Penguin Books Ltd 80 Strand London WC2R 0RL England Penguin Ireland 25 St. Stephen s Green Dublin 2 Ireland a division of Penguin Books Ltd Penguin Books Australia Ltd 250 Camberwell Road Camberwell Victoria 3124 Australia a division of Pearson Australia Group Pty Ltd Penguin Books India Pvt Ltd 11 Community Centre Panchsheel Park New Delhi-110 017 India Penguin Group NZ 67 Apollo Drive Rosedale North Shore 0745 Auckland New Zealand a division of Pearson New Zealand Ltd. Penguin Books South Africa Pty Ltd 24 Sturdee Avenue Rosebank Johannesburg 2196 South Africa Penguin Books Ltd Registered Offices 80 Strand London WC2R 0RL England First published in 2007 by The Penguin Press a member of Penguin Group USA Inc. Copyright Alan Greenspan 2007 All rights reserved Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Greenspan Alan 1926- The age of turbulence adventures in a new world by Alan Greenspan. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 1-4295-4652-2 1. Greenspan Alan 1926- 2. Government economists United States Biography. 3. United States Economic conditions 1945- 2007 1092 dc22 B 2007013169 Designed by Amanda Dewey Without limiting the rights under copyright reserved above no part of this publication may be reproduced stored in or introduced into a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means electronic mechanical photocopying recording or otherwise without the prior written permission of both the copyright owner and the above publisher of this book. The scanning uploading and distribution of this book via the Internet or via any other means without the permission .
