Alan Greenspan

Described as

American economist and financial advisor (1926–2026)

Born

March 6, 1926 · 7 references

Died

June 22, 2026 · 3 references

Born in

New York City · 3 references

Died in

Washington, D.C. · 3 references

Cause of death

Parkinson's disease

Citizen of

United States

Occupation

economist · 1 reference; banker · 1 reference; politician · 1 reference; entrepreneur; jazz musician; consultant · 1 reference; author; writer · 1 reference

Positions held

Chair of the Federal Reserve (1987–2006); Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers (1974–1977) · 1 reference

Political party

Republican Party

Education

Columbia University; Stern School of Business (–1977); Juilliard School · 1 reference; George Washington Educational Campus · 1 reference

Member of

American Philosophical Society · 1 reference; Group of Thirty; Objectivist movement · 1 reference

Instrument

clarinet

Awards

Honorary Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (2002) · 1 reference; Presidential Medal of Freedom (2005) · 1 reference; Commander of the Legion of Honour; Francis Boyer Award (1996) · 1 reference; Fellow of the American Statistical Association (1989) · 1 reference; Paul A. Volcker Lifetime Achievement Award for Economic Policy (2019) · 2 references; honorary doctor of the Hofstra University; honorary doctor of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven; Financial Times Person of the Year (1998) · 1 reference

Field

economics; economics of banking · 1 reference; central banking · 1 reference; central bank · 1 reference

Spouse

Andrea Mitchell (1997–2026) · 1 reference; Joan Mitchell Blumenthal (1952–1953) · 1 reference

Religion

atheism

Wikipedias with a page

67

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Alan Greenspan (March 6, 1926 – June 22, 2026) was an American economist who served as the 13th chair of the Federal Reserve from 1987 to 2006. He worked as a private adviser and provided consulting for firms through his company, Greenspan Associates LLC.
First nominated to the Federal Reserve by President Ronald Reagan in August 1987, Greenspan was reappointed at successive four-year intervals until retiring in January 2006, after the second-longest tenure in the position, behind only William McChesney Martin. President George W. Bush appointed Ben Bernanke as his successor. Greenspan came to the Federal Reserve Board from a consulting career. Although he was subdued in his public appearances, favorable media coverage raised his profile to a point that several observers likened him to a "rock star". Democratic leaders of Congress criticized him for politicizing his office because of his support for social security privatization and tax cuts.
Many have argued that the "easy-money" policies of the Fed during Greenspan's tenure, including the practice known as the "Greenspan put", were a leading cause of the dot-com bubble and subprime mortgage crisis (the latter occurring within a year of his leaving the Fed), which, said The Wall Street Journal, "tarnished his reputation". Yale economist Robert Shiller argues that "once stocks fell, real estate became the primary outlet for the speculative frenzy that the stock market had unleashed". Greenspan argued that the housing bubble was not a result of low-interest short-term rates but rather a worldwide phenomenon caused by the progressive decline in long-term interest rates – a direct consequence of the relationship between high savings rates in the developing world and its inverse in the developed world.

Born, in its opening lines

March 6, 1926

Died, in its opening lines

June 22, 2026

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