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Robert Reich

EXPLAINED: Rip alan greenspan you were charming powerful and wrong | Rare Historical Photos

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‘Greenspan finally acknowledged that the crisis caused him to rethink his free market ideology.’ Photograph: Bob Daugherty/AP

Alan Greenspan has died at the age of 100.

My students don’t recognize his name, but you probably do. When he was chair of the Federal Reserve – for more than 18 years, from 11 August 1987 to 31 January 2006 – he not only ran the US (and most of the world’s) economy but was also in many ways the most powerful person in the US.

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