Former Fed chair Alan Greenspan dies at 100 (opens in new tab)

Alan Greenspan, the former Federal Reserve chairman who steered U.S. monetary policy from August 1987 to January 2006, died Monday at his home from complications of Parkinson’s disease, according to his wife, Andrea Mitchell. He was 100. He served under Presidents Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, making him one of the longest-serving Fed chairs in U.S. history. Greenspan’s tenure coincided with the Great Moderation, a period from the mid-1980s until 2007 marke...