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Alan Greenspan

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March 06, 1926 in New York, New York, The United States

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Alan Greenspan is an American economist and from 1987 to 2006 chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve of the United States. He currently works as a private advisor, making speeches and providing consulting for firms through his company, Greenspan Associates LLC.

First appointed Fed chairman by President Ronald Reagan in August 1987, he was reappointed at successive four-year intervals until retiring after a record-setting tenure on January 31, 2006, at which time he relinquished the chairmanship to Ben Bernanke. Greenspan was lauded for his handling of the Black Monday stock market crash that occurred very shortly after he first became chairman, as well as for his stewardship of the Internet-driven, "dot-com" economic boom...more

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Books by Alan Greenspan

Average rating: 3.64 · 3,631 ratings · 505 reviews · 20 distinct works

	The Age Of Turbulence: Adventures In A New World 3.57 avg rating — 2,294 ratings — published 2007 — 22 editions	My rating:
	Achieving Price Stability: A Symposium Sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2001	My rating:
	New Challenges for Monetary Policy 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2002	My rating:
	Changing Capital Markets: Implications for Monetary Policy: A Symposium Sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City : Jackson Hole, Wyoming August ... Reserve Bank of Kansas City Symposium) 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2001	My rating:
	WITH A SIDDUR AND A SALAMI OR S.O.S - SEND OVER SALAMIS by Alan Greenspan, Chaplain Alan Greenspan 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2005	My rating:
	Income Inequality: Issues and Policy Options 2.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2002	My rating:
	Epilogue To The Age Of Turbulence: A Penguin Group eSpecial from Penguin Books 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2008	My rating:
	Ėpokha Potri︠a︡seniĭ: Problemy I Perspektivy Mirovoĭ Finansovoĭ Sistemy 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2009	My rating:
	Epilogue To The Age Of Turbulence 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2008 — 2 editions	My rating:
	DK Handbooks: Birds of the World by Colin J. O. Harrison, Alan Greenspan 4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1993	My rating:

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“ I know you think you understand what you thought I said but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant”
― Alan Greenspan

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“under the gold standard, a free banking system stands as the protector of an economy's stability and balanced growth... The abandonment of the gold standard made it possible for the welfare statists to use the banking system as a means to an unlimited expansion of credit... In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation”
― Alan Greenspan

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“There are errors in this book. I do not know where they are. If I did they wouldn't be there. But with close to two hundred thousand words my probabilistic mind tells me some are wrong.”
― Alan Greenspan, The Age Of Turbulence: Adventures In A New World