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And he warned that under question- able speculative bubble that could F0B78=6C>=k Badgered by law- things would get worse before they ing that he had harm the economy when it burst. makers, former Federal Reserve get better, with rising unemploy- made a “mistake” Greenspan maintained during Chairman Alan Greenspan denied ment and no stabilization in hous- in believing that that period that home prices were the nation’s economic crisis was his ing prices for “many months.” banks, operating unlikely to post a significant decline MIKE MEADOWS/AP MIKE fault on Thursday but conceded Greenspan’s interrogation by the Greenspan in their own self- nationally because housing was a A Los Angeles firefighter sprays down the meltdown had revealed a flaw House Oversight Committee was a interest, would do local market. hot spots along Sepulveda Boulevard. in a lifetime of economic thinking far cry from his 18½ years as Fed what was necessary to protect their He said the current financial and left him in a “state of shocked chairman, when he presided over shareholders. 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