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Remembering longtime Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan

Longtime Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan has died of complications from Parkinson’s disease. He was 100 years old.

Greenspan was the rare celebrity among central bankers, lionized for the long-running economic boom of the 1990s. His reputation was tarnished, however, by the global financial crisis, which struck a decade later.

NPR’s Scott Horsley reports.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

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