Bow out

Never let it be said The Speculator only hits a man when he's down. We were quite fond of lashing out at Fed Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan when he was basking in can-do-no-wrong glory. So there's no question of conscience involved in putting him back in the stocks now. This past September, in fact, he became Sir Alan, joining Jack Welch as an honorary knight at the hands of QEII - the monarch, that is, not the boat. I wondered where he'd been, since Greenspan was discernibly less prominent