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

Alan Greenspan, the former U.S. Federal Reserve chairman who guided monetary policy from August 1987 to January 2006, died Monday at age 100, his wife, Andrea Mitchell, said. Mitchell said he died at home from complications of Parkinson’s disease. Greenspan 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. His tenure covered Black Monday in 1987, the 1990s expansion, the dot-com bust and ...