Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan dies at 100
Alan Greenspan chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, chats with newsmen prior to his appearance on NBC's "Meet the Press", Sept. 29, 1974, in Washington. (AP Photo/Bob Daugherty, file)
WASHINGTON (AP) — Alan Greenspan, the jazz-playing U.S. Federal Reserve chair who was celebrated for engineering a decade of prosperity but later shared the blame for a devastating financial crisis, died Monday. He was 100.
Greenspan died from complications of Parkinson’s disease, said his wife of 29 years, NBC News correspondent Andrea Mitchell.