September 8, 2007 (LPAC)--According to the Wall Street Journal of Sept. 7, Alan Greenspan hinted at the seriousness of the present financial crisis in a Washington, DC, speech given the previous day. Greenspan, while babbling that "business expansions are driven by euphoria and contractions by fear," compared present market behavior to the 1987 and 1998 market crashes, deliberately understating the seriousness of the situation by several orders of magnitude (no doubt to allay the fear and boost the euphoria of his high-finance audience). In reality, a more truthful comparison would have been to the Little Dark Age of the 14th Century, after the collapse of the Bardi and Peruzzi Banks in Italy.