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Let's get right to it here. He needs no introduction. Alan Greenspan is the former

chairman of the Federal Reserve System and I think many of you know without question his recent caution on the economy and yet everything has changed.

Did you fall off your couch on Friday?

Could you not play tennis Saturday morning?

You were so shocked by the outcome in the United Kingdom?

No, but I played terrible tennis.

You played terrible tennis. honor of what was going on because you couldn't

see the ball let me go to your book the age of turbulence there is an age of

turbulence right now and I think of a chapter you had there on China

the choices that await China. What are the choices that await the United Kingdom

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