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Posted by helsinkiandrew 1 day ago

Alan Greenspan has died(www.washingtonpost.com)
https://archive.ph/tSlDZ

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/22/alan-greenspan-former-chairm...

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alberth 1 day ago|
For many Americans, Greenspan was the only Fed Chair known widely by name by the general public.
NoboruWataya 1 day ago|
I'm not from the US and was born after Greenspan took up the position but I thought Paul Volcker was a pretty well known name during his tenure?
unregistereddev 1 day ago|||
During his tenure, yes. Volcker remains famous among finance nerds, because it turns out he was right. He caused a recession and risked his own job, but in doing so he successfully reigned in runaway inflation.

While Volcker was controversial in his time and celebrated later, Greenspan was widely respected in his day. I remember Greenspan being sought for interviews national television to help explain finance topics to the general public.

rootusrootus 1 day ago|||
Maybe GP meant Americans alive today. Volcker is probably memorable mostly to an age bracket swiftly shrinking.
collabs 1 day ago||
I am so confused... so he was a proponent of gold standard but also supported low interest rates and the "Greenspan PUT"?
zkmon 1 day ago||
"Irrational exuberance" - I came to know about him when he said that around 2001. Kinda foresaw the dotcom bubble.
gertlex 1 day ago||
I'm probably a fair bit younger. I came to know the phrase, then (of) him, through the flash animation of the Happatai/Yatta song on Albino Black Sheep in the early 2000s (and these days on youtube if you search 'irrational exuberance yatta'; mildly nsfw in a few spots). Never bothered to dig into its meaning, though.
hed 1 day ago||
He said it in 1996.
boppo1 1 day ago||
How did a guy who wrote that "gold and economic freedom" wind up running two decades of LIRP?
mempko 1 day ago||
Here is an old clip of Alan Greenspan explaining to Paul Ryan why the social security system can't go bankrupt.

https://youtu.be/DNCZHAQnfGU?is=CWQS-QUJB0z4EfSM

fumeux_fume 1 day ago|
A very Economist answer to Ryan's question. So basically, no.
pjs_ 1 day ago||
Highly recommend the extremely good multipart documentary All Watched Over By Machines Of Loving Grace by Adam Curtis for a fun and wide ranging if slightly silly look at the nexus of Greenspan, Ayn Rand, Silicon Valley, computer technology etc
toomuchtodo 1 day ago||
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Greenspan
lowbloodsugar 23 hours ago|
This is the guy who told everyone to save money by buying property with ARMs and then, post crash, admitted to congress that there a flaw in his economic theory. No shit.
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