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Alan Greenspan, One of the Most Influential Fed Chairs Ever, Dies at 100
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- During his more than 18 years leading the Fed, from 1987 to 2006, Greenspan was both lionized and demonized.
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Alan Greenspan was one of the most influential—and controversial—U.S. Federal Reserve chairs to ever serve in that position. He died on Monday at age 100 from complications of Parkinson’s disease, according to his wife, NBC News correspondent Andrea Mitchell.
During his more than 18 years leading the Fed, from 1987 to 2006, Greenspan was both lionized and demonized. For much of his tenure, he was viewed as the maestro of the 1990s economic boom, an economist with an almost preternatural feel for tweaking interest rates. (Washington Post legend Bob Woodward, no hagiographer, even wrote a 2000 book about Greenspan titled Maestro.)
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