Astute Comments on Greenspan's Policy

On The Housing Bubble 2 Blog, a poster named mike_in_fl writes the following:

What's truly ridiculous is that Greenspan says he can do nothing to recognize or pop building asset bubbles -- and won't really HIKE rates to tame them. But he has absolutely no problem CUTTING rates when stocks plunge (2001), when there's a terrorist attack (later in 2001, when the bond market goes haywire (1995), etc., etc. In essence, he's saying he can accurately spot a bust and deal with it, but not a boom. How come he doesn't just let the busts play out, too, since "Relying on policymakers to perceive when speculative asset [busts] have developed and then to implement timely policies to address successfully these misalignments in asset prices is simply not realistic"

Who's to say the Dow shouldn't fall 500 points? Or tech stocks plunge? Or home prices drop?

Excellent comments. It would be great for Greenspan to answer those questions.