Greenspan et les slips

Les errements de Alan Greenspan sont à la base de la crise financière actuelle. Et comment ce monsieur déterminait-il les taux de la Fed? En observant, entre autres choses, le marché des sous-vêtements masculins:

As chairman of the Federal Reserve, Alan Greenspan was known for using quirky, proletariat metrics to judge the temperature of the economy. The most famous of these, as recounted by NPR's Robert Krulwich in January 2008, were the sales of men's underwear. If the economic scales dipped even the slightest, Greenspan reasoned, it was as sure a sign as any that people were truly feeling the pinch. (...)