Chancellor Gordon Brown hasn't wasted any time in signing up former US Federal Reserve chairman Alan...
Chancellor Gordon Brown hasn't wasted any time in signing up former US Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan as an economic adviser. There is little doubt the UK could use some advice right now. So what's Greenspan likely to tell Brown? Here's what this columnist would expect to find in the former Fed chairman's first memo to the British chancellor: Dear Gordon, Thanks very much for the appointment. After steer-ing the largest English-speaking economy in the world for 18 years, it will be interesting to help do the same in the second-largest. Now I just have to figure out the language...
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