Alan Greenspan died on Monday at the age of 100. PBS NewsHour and New York Post both report the death of the former Federal Reserve chairman. PBS NewsHour states the cause as complications from Parkinson’s disease.
“Remembering the legacy of Alan Greenspan, 'maestro' of the U.S. economy”
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“Alan Greenspan fueled America’s boom — and set a course for future prosperity”
Read at New York Post →Greenspan’s bipartisan appointments normalized deregulation whose costs fell on working families after 2008.
“Market fundamentalism and weakened financial safeguards”
Greenspan extended low-inflation stability across administrations but expanded centralized monetary power.
“Technocratic continuity and limits of discretionary policy”
His tenure demonstrates how central banking distorts markets regardless of the chair’s prior principles.
“Institutional incentives and fiat policy over sound money”
All three views overstate Greenspan’s singular role while relying on unverified appointment details and ignoring external fiscal drivers of the 2008 crisis.
“Shared causal assumptions and omitted structural constraints”
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