-->October 9, 2005 -- SO now we know one reason Alan Greenspan's Fed has been so out of sync with the mood of the American consumer — the Fed Chief hasn't driven a car in 18 years!
That revelation came courtesy of Greenspan's wife, NBC's Andrea Mitchell, after her husband was the lucky winner of a 2006 Porsche Boxster at a charity auction in Washington this week.
With no need to fill 'er up since the summer of 1987, it's little wonder that, until recently, Greenspan has been more focused on deflation than inflation, even as crude prices marched systematically higher from... (Perry Leopold)
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