Economists speculate over Greenspan’s future

US FEDERAL Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan’s pointed criticism of the President Bush tax plan show that Greenspan often taken to task for being too murky in his economic pronouncements, can be crystal clear when he wants to be.

The Federal Reserve chairman warned that further tax cuts should be paid for, leading Democrats to proclaim that Greenspan had delivered the 'kiss of death' for President Bush's $1.3 trillion proposal.

GOP lawmakers fumed. Greenspan, himself a Republican, had stabbed them in the back.