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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Example Sentences

He is also seen as less likely to support the so-called Fed put to come to the rescue of risk markets, which was initiated by former Chair Alan Greenspan and continued under his successors, Ben Bernanke, Janet Yellen, and Powell.

From Barron's

Yahoo’s explosive initial public offering would have been in March 2024 and Alan Greenspan’s “irrational exuberance” warning that December.

From The Wall Street Journal

In 1987, Fed Chair Alan Greenspan told a U.S. senator at a hearing: “If I seem unduly clear to you, you must have misunderstood what I said.”

From MarketWatch

Druckenmiller stated that Warsh and Bessent possess a level of competence not seen in decades, comparing them to Rubin and Greenspan.

From Barron's

Instead, he has more generically invoked the example of former Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan, who in the mid-1990s held off on raising interest rates as the economy expanded steadily because inflation pressures were mild.

From The Wall Street Journal