Alan Greenspan, Fed Chairman Through Prosperity and Crisis, Dies at 100

The pre-eminent economic policymaker of his time and a skilled political operator, he favored market-friendly stances that would later come to be associated with destructive financial forces.Alan Greenspan in 1987. After overseeing a period of immense wealth creation, he was often portrayed as among those responsible for the 2008 crisis and the economic and political shocks that followed it.