EclecticLip

I was searching for a way to express Alan Greenspan’s fall from grace in the eyes of the commentariat; if you’ll recall, a few short years ago Bob Woodward wrote a hagiography, titled Maestro.  He’s now (correctly) blamed for having blown the financial bubble at the heart of the ongoing credit crisis.

Plumbing through the Bhagavad Gita, I think I’ve come up with a suitable analogy.  In a few short years, Alan Greenspan has gone from:

“I support the whole universe with a fragment of myself”  *   

to:

“I am death, shatterer of worlds.”             <-- amusingly, this passage is in Chapter 11

* Greenspan was featured on the cover of TIME magazine after the 1998 stock market turbulence as part of “the committee to save the world“