Alan Greenspan, economist and longtime head of the Federal Reserve, dies at 100

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: NBC News

Jun. 22, 2026, 7:03 AM EDT


Alan Greenspan, the influential economist who steered U.S. monetary policy during his five terms as chairman of the Federal Reserve under four presidents, died Monday, his wife said in a statement.

He was 100.

Greenspan helped shape modern American capitalism from the final years of the Cold War era through the dawn of the digital age. He presided over the Fed during one of the longest economic expansions in U.S. history, a boom stretching from 1991 to 2001. But he was also faulted for decisions that critics say created the conditions for the global financial crisis of 2007-08, such as advocating for deregulation of the financial sector.

He is survived by his wife of 29 years, Andrea Mitchell, the chief Washington correspondent and chief foreign affairs correspondent for NBC News. “Alan passed away at our home this morning at the age of 100 from complications of Parkinson’s Disease,” Mitchell said in a statement. “He was a giant of a man who helped shape the U.S. economy for decades under presidents of both parties, but was always honest in acknowledging his mistakes,” she said.

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[bucolic_frolic]

1. Happy Days Are Here Again

[GCG]

2. About Fucking time

[raccoon]

3. Why do people like him and Kissinger live so long?

They must be part vampire.

[Javaman]

5. because they are ungodly wealthy and afford the best treatment.

while the rest of us...

[BComplex]

8. And Dick Cheney. And now Donald Trump...only 80, but who has done 100 years

worth of damage to a very young democracy. I don't get it, either, Raccoon.

[Javaman]

4. how about that. nt

[Martin Eden]

6. My mother taught me to speak only good of the dead.

Alan Greenspan is dead.

Good.

[GiqueCee]

7. It should be noted...

... that Greenspan was also an ardent devotee of Alisa Rosenbaum's (Ayn Rand's real name) psychotic bullshit.
I suspect that Elon Musk might be that deranged as well, given his diatribes against empathy. Rand hated altruism in any and every form, and ranted against it at every possible opportunity. A real sweetheart, that one.

[BComplex]

9. Ayn Rand still lives on in the republican party, and in the academia of the University of

Chicago. I wish her shit would have died with her.

[GiqueCee]

12. Likewise, I'm sure...

Congressman Paul Ryan made his entire staff read her doorstop books. Her essays were, shall we say, colorful, as well, and just as poorly written as Fountainhead Shrugged. (Both books were so similar in plot lines, that they may as well have been one cinder block of a book) The Virtue of Selfishness is mercifully short, but still vomit-inducing to anyone with a shred of conscience.

[BumRushDaShow]

11. "Rand hated altruism in any and every form, and ranted against it at every possible opportunity."

But made sure she collected her "socialist" Social Security check every month, becoming the very "parasite" that she derisively labeled others.

[SouthBayDem]

13. Why write Rand's real name? nt

[GiqueCee]

14. Why not?

[mountain grammy]

16. Never knew her real name

Wish I had. Could of been useful. Thanks for that info.

[GiqueCee]

20. Back in the sixties...

... I worked for a couple of guys who were serious "Objectivists", which is what keen followers of Rand called themselves. I was strongly encouraged to read her works, so I know a lot more about her than I would like.
Sadly, the stench of her influence lives on in the GOP.

[radical noodle]

10. Ironically

He warned against income inequality, but seemed to blame the poor for not being properly educated instead of blaming the greedy rich.

[OhioBack2Blue]

15. Another Ayn Rand kook that destroyed this country. Good riddance!

I remember this moron, from late 80s & 90s, talking on news programs. I was in my 20s and knew he was absolutely he was taking down the middle class with his bonkers Ayn Rand jibberish.

And, as proof establishment Dems and Rs are in bed together in a "unitary party" here is who appointed him Reagan, Bush, Clinton (reappointed), and George W. Bush. The fix was clearly in when Bakker and Volker put Greenspans name to Reagan initially.

This man alone, is responsible for tremendous damage to the middle class of the United States of America.

Our system is so broken.

Still waiting for Americans to unite and pick up the pitchforks.

[lildDemz]

17. Greenspan read Atlas Shrugged

while it was being written.

[popsdenver]

18. Yet, just another Republican

sub human pieces of shit, full of self aggrandizement, like so many other modern day Republican Politcians and Republican leading figures.......there are countless numbers of them, all relying on others with similar thinking to prop each other, and themselves up....

[Aristus]

19. Good riddance.

I don't believe in a Hell for him to burn in for all eternity. But at least we human beings are rid of that asshole.

[TygrBright]

21. Let me know where they're planting him.

I wanna go water it.

hopefully,
Bright

[modrepub]

22. We Come To Bury Greenspan

Not to praise him.

Seriously, this was a guy whose only job was to make milquetoast statements that would have reporters and pundits grasping for interpretation. Like Chauncey Gardiner in Being There. Never experienced a real days work in his life and his long tenure probably did more damage to the economy than if we had switched out after his term expired.