This process can increase the overall riskiness of institutions under a risk insensitive regulatory regime, as described by Alan Greenspan in his October 1998 speech on The Role of Capital in Optimal Banking Supervision and Regulation.

Other more recent political figures educated at Columbia include U. S President Barack Obama, Associate Justice of the U. S. Supreme Court Ruth Bader Ginsburg, former U. S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, former chairman of the U. S. Federal Reserve Bank Alan Greenspan, U. S. Attorney General Eric Holder, and U. S. Solicitor General Donald Verrilli Jr .. Dwight D. Eisenhower served as the thirteenth president of Columbia University from 1948 to 1953.

* 1926 – Alan Greenspan, American economist, former Federal Reserve chairman

In recent times, some prominent economists including Alan Greenspan have warned that the widening rich-poor gap in the U. S. population is a problem that could undermine and destabilize the country's economy and standard of living stating that " The income gap between the rich and the rest of the US population has become so wide, and is growing so fast, that it might eventually threaten the stability of democratic capitalism itself ".

* After the 1992 booming of the US stock market, Alan Greenspan coined the phrase " irrational exuberance ".

Indeed, Alan Greenspan, leader of the Federal Reserve until 2006, cut the interest rates several times to avoid a severe recession, allowing an economic revival in the U. S.

** Alan Greenspan, American economist and former Chairman of the Federal Reserve

* December 5 – Federal Reserve Board Chairman Alan Greenspan gives a speech in which he suggests that " irrational exuberance " may have " unduly escalated asset values ".

In 1966 Alan Greenspan wrote " Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the confiscation of wealth.

However, some prominent economists have expressed sympathy with a hard-currency basis, and have argued against politically-controlled fiat money, including former U. S. Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan ( himself a former Objectivist ), and macro-economist Robert Barro.

In the late 1980s, Paul Volcker was succeeded by Alan Greenspan, a leading monetarist.

The incoming Democratic president Bill Clinton reappointed Alan Greenspan, and kept him as a core member of his economic team.

In 2000, Alan Greenspan raised interest rates several times.

These policies of Alan Greenspan are blamed by the followers of the Austrian School for creating excessive liquidity, causing lending standards to deteriorate, and resulting in the housing bubble of 2004-2006.

Alan Greenspan, former chairman of the Federal Reserve, argued that the 1990s decoupling was explained by a virtuous cycle of productivity and investment on one hand, and a certain degree of " irrational exuberance " in the investment sector.

* Alan Greenspan

Alan Greenspan, in his essay entitled Antitrust condemns the Sherman Act as stifling innovation and harming society.

* Antitrust by Alan Greenspan

Certain influential foreign conflicts such as the 1991 Soviet coup d ' état attempt which took place as part of the initial stages of the Dissolution of the USSR and the Fall of Communism ; the First and Second Chechen Wars, the Persian Gulf War and the Yugoslav Wars failed to dampen economic enthusiasm surrounding the ongoing Information Age and the " Irrational Exuberance " ( a phrase coined by Alan Greenspan ) of the Internet Boom.

* The Rise of the New Global Elite-Statements of the former five-term Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan

* October 26 Lay makes phone call to Alan Greenspan, chairman of the Federal Reserve, about Enron.

Current well-known economists include 2008 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences winner Paul Krugman, a public intellectual and advocate of modern liberal policies ; Alan Greenspan, the former chairman of the Federal Reserve ; Ben Bernanke, the current Chairman of the Federal Reserve ; Joseph Stiglitz, an American economist, Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics winner, critic of inequality and the governance of globalization, and Chief Economist of the World Bank.

Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan praised the Sarbanes – Oxley Act: " I am surprised that the Sarbanes – Oxley Act, so rapidly developed and enacted, has functioned as well as it has ... the act importantly reinforced the principle that shareholders own our corporations and that corporate managers should be working on behalf of shareholders to allocate business resources to their optimum use.

Recent speakers at the LSE have included Kofi Annan, Hilary Benn, Ben Bernanke, Tony Blair, Hazel Blears, Cherie Booth, Gordon Brown, David Cameron, Noam Chomsky, Bill Clinton, Alistair Darling, Niall Ferguson, Joschka Fischer, Vicente Fox, Milton Friedman, Muammar al-Gaddafi, John Lewis Gaddis, Alan Greenspan, Tenzin Gyatso, Will Hutton, Paul Krugman, Richard Lambert, Jens Lehmann, Lee Hsien Loong, John Major, Nelson Mandela, Mary McAleese, Dmitri Medvedev, John Atta Mills, Mario Monti, George Osborne, Robert Peston, Sebastián Piñera, Kevin Rudd, Jeffrey Sachs, Gerhard Schroeder, Carlos D. Mesa, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Costas Simitis, George Soros, Lord Stern, Jack Straw, Aung San Suu Kyi, Baroness Thatcher, Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Rowan Williams.

Alan wrote three very large theological textbooks, one being his first work, Summa Quoniam Homines.

In addition to his battle against moral decay, Alan wrote a work against Islam, Judaism and Christian heretics dedicated to William VIII of Montpellier.

Alan Jay Lerner was educated at Bedales School in England, The Choate School ( now Choate Rosemary Hall ) in Wallingford, Connecticut, ( where he wrote " The Choate Marching Song ") and Harvard.

Alan Garner wrote a children's fantasy novel called The Weirdstone of Brisingamen about an enchanted teardrop bracelet.

Writer Alan Grant has stated, " The Batman I wrote for 13 years isn't gay.

According to scholar Alan Dundes, who wrote extensively on the topic, the custom originated among Romani Gypsies in Wales ( Welsh Kale Gypsies ) and England ( English Romanichal Gypsies ).

Alan Bennett wrote the screenplay.

Following a 1 – 0 victory against Chelsea at Stamford Bridge in February 2011, described by Alan Smith as " a quite brilliant display in terms of discipline and spirit " and a " defensive masterplan " by David Pleat, Henry Winter wrote, " it can only be a matter of time before he is confirmed as long-term manager ".

In 1996, physicist Alan Sokal wrote a nonsensical article entitled " Transgressing the Boundaries: Toward a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity ".

Howard Ashman, Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz had previous musical theatre experience and wrote songs for animated films during this time, supplanting Disney workhorses the Sherman Brothers.

In 1978, around the same time Roy Trubshaw wrote MUD, Alan E. Klietz wrote a game called Milieu using Multi-Pascal on a CDC Cyber 6600 series mainframe which was operated by the Minnesota Educational Computing Consortium.

John Alan Simon wrote, produced and directed a film adaptation of Radio Free Albemuth.

Whilst still at university, Cook wrote for Kenneth Williams, for whom he created an entire West End comedy revue called One Over the Eight, before finding prominence in his own right in a four-man group satirical stage show, Beyond the Fringe, with Jonathan Miller, Alan Bennett and Dudley Moore.

He was quiet and self-effacing, remarkably polite and obliging — a product, biographer Alan Clayson wrote, of his Southern upbringing.

Astronauts Alan Shepard, who was the first American in space, and Deke Slayton later wrote of how the sight of Sputnik I passing overhead inspired them to their new careers.

The American historians ' Williamson Murray and Alan Millet wrote about Raeder's thinking about Norway: "... since fall 1939, Admiral Raeder had advocated an aggressive policy toward Scandinavia to protect ore shipments and to establish naval bases in the area.

Alan S. Brown and Chris Logan wrote in The Psychology of The Simpsons that Grampa has the least amount of " power " in the Simpson family, and that he is treated as little more than a child and is often ignored.

Ray Galton and Alan Simpson wrote for him from 1964 to 1966 when he worked for the BBC and also for a one-off show for Thames, Frankie Howerd meets the Bee Gees, shown on 20 August 1968.

British gardening personality Alan Titchmarsh wrote in 2003: " Chatsworth's greatest strength is that its owners have refused to let the garden rest on its Victorian laurels.

* In 2007, David Greig wrote an adaptation of The Bacchae for the National Theatre of Scotland starring Alan Cumming as Dionysus, with ten soul-singing followers in place of the traditional Greek chorus.

The British philosopher Alan Watts wrote extensively about this subject.

In five of the mystery novels she wrote under the name of Tey, the hero is Scotland Yard Inspector Alan Grant.