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Alan Greenspan, the former chairman of the Federal Reserve who presided over the U.S. central bank for 19 years under four presidents, has died at the age of 100.
His passing closes the book on one of the longest and most consequential tenures in the history of American monetary policy.
A Tenure Measured in Administrations, Not Terms Nineteen years at the helm of the Federal Reserve is not a tenure — it is an epoch.
Across four separate presidential administrations, Greenspan retained the chairmanship of the most closely watched central bank in the world, outlasting the political cycles that typically reshuffle institutional leadership.
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