Greenspan

[green-span]

noun

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

Example Sentences

At the outset of the dot-com boom, then-Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan, though worried about “irrational exuberance,” concluded that the Fed shouldn’t raise interest rates to deflate bubbles: pricking them would do more damage than letting them deflate on their own.

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Bill Clinton’s Republican Fed chairman, Alan Greenspan, would fret about the national debt disappearing faster than the financial plumbing could adjust to its absence.

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As a Wall Street economist, former Fed Chair Alan Greenspan developed a lifelong fondness for watching scrap-metal prices.

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In an interview conducted via text message, Tesla Diner chef Eric Greenspan kept details sparse, telling Eater that the menu would be “forever evolving” and that the “unprecedented demand” led to menu cuts for efficiency.

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As of Aug. 6, Greenspan said soft serve would return to the diner menu later that week, but the sweet treat has yet to show up.

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