Alan Greenspan, architect of the modern American economy, dies aged 100

Alan Greenspan, the influential Federal Reserve chairman who served from 1987 to 2006, has passed away at age 100 from complications related to Parkinson's Disease. During his nearly two-decade tenure overseeing American monetary policy, he guided the country through its longest sustained economic growth period in a generation while handling major financial crises including the 1987 stock market crash. Before his economics career, Greenspan was a trained clarinetist who toured professionally and later became influenced by free-market philosopher Ayn Rand, shaping his economic worldview.