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  "textContent": "While chairman of the Federal Reserve, Alan Greenspan developed what economist Alan Blinder called \"a turgid dialect of English\" — deliberate obscurantism designed to prevent financial markets from overreacting to his words. He admitted as much in a 2007 interview with 60 Minutes's Lesley Stahl: \"I would engage in some form of syntax destruction which sounded as though I were answering the question, but in fact, had not.\" — Read the rest \n\nThe post Fed Chair Alan Greenspan intentionally babbled meaningless  slop and got away with it appeared first on Boing Boing.",
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