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Greenspan

American  
[green-span] / ˈgrinˌspæn /

noun

  1. Alan, born 1926, U.S. economist: chairman of the Federal Reserve Board 1987–2006.


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Chef Eric Greenspan has an admirably outsize ego.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026

Alan Greenspan was revered in the 1980s and 1990s for supporting the stock market, but retrospective views cloud his legacy.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2026

Unfortunately, to my knowledge, Greenspan never publicly did so.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 2026

In this, he has made it clear he is trying to emulate former Fed chiefs Paul Volcker and Alan Greenspan, who both tried to say as little as possible in public.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 11, 2026

Speaking of the increasing concentration of incomes, Alan Greenspan, the Federal Reserve chairman, warned in congressional testimony in 2004: “For the democratic society, that is not a very desirable thing to allow it to happen.”

From "Class Matters" by The New York Times

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