Longtime Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan has died of complications from Parkinson’s disease. He was 100 years old.
Greenspan was the rare celebrity among central bankers, lionized for the long-running economic boom of the 1990s. His reputation was tarnished, however, by the global financial crisis, which struck a decade later.
NPR’s Scott Horsley reports.
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