"Credit spreads across all global asset classes had become compressed to clearly unsustainable levels," Greenspan told an audience at the World Bank's International Finance Corporation.
"Something had to give. If the crisis had not been triggered by a mispricing of securitized US subprime (high-risk) mortgages, it would have eventually erupted in some other sector of our market," the former Fed chief said.
Greenspan defended the Fed's decision to lower its key federal funds interest rate to 1.0 percent, seen in some quarters as having encouraged risky borrowing, and said the US housing bubble had not been caused by the US central bank.
"Central banks around the world have essentially lost control over the markets beyond three or four or five years out," Greenspan said, noting that long-term interest rates did not rise as the federal funds rate was increased, starting in 2004.
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US housing is primarily financed by mortgages based on 30-year interest rates.
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