Alan Greenspan

Hosted by two people whose common quality is they both look as if the minced essence of Wellington boots, the Volvo XC40 and the phrase “picky bits” has been reconstituted into human shapes, then sent out to judge people for buying houses

For more than a century, copper has quietly underpinned the modern economy

For a person who appeared to understand the human condition, his attachment to the libertarian teachings of Alice O’Connor (better known Ayn Rand and born as Aliza Rosenbaum), was a bit disappointing

The Federal Reserve, which he led from 1987 until 2006, issued an encomium in characteristically modest and understated Fedspeak

The Federal Reserve, which he led from 1987 until 2006, issued an encomium in characteristically modest and understated Fedspeak

In September 1996, Alan Greenspan, then the Fed’s chair, resisted raising interest rates despite some signs that the economy was on the verge of overheating

The Federal Reserve has for decades moved steadily from a remote, opaque government agency that shared little about what it did or why to a more transparent institution willing to explain how it makes decisions and what it thinks about the economy

Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers were bust, and the government had taken equity stakes in private banks in a bid to arrest the crisis

Mitchell, the chief Washington correspondent and chief foreign affairs correspondent for NBC News, announced her husband's death in a statement

Greenspan grew up a Benny Goodman fan and before taking up economics he studied clarinet for two years at ‌New York's Juilliard School and played saxophone ​with a touring jazz band

More recently, money managers and dealmakers have grown used to similar support from the Middle East

Alan Greenspan served as the 13th chair of the Federal Reserve for 18 and a half years, during which time the US experienced the Great Moderation of stability, relatively low inflation, and rising prosperity, though his policies were also blamed for the dot-com bubble and the global financial crisis of 2007-08