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Remembering Alan Greenspan
Alan Bollard
Fri, 26 Jun 2026
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Alan Greenspan was an economist and a former chair of the Federal Reserve of the United States. (Image: Getty)
Alan Greenspan died this week.I recall meeting him several times at the central bank meetings in Jackson Hole, Wyoming and the Bank of International Settlements in Basel.He was an impressive, knowledgeable and confident man who presided over these meetings with unchallenged authority.By this time, he had been chair of the US Federal Reserve for nearly two decades and had rock-star status in the financial markets.In my view, that was rather too long for one person and led to too much personalised influence.The Federal Reserve is a large, sophist...
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