Alan Greenspan

(noun)

An American economist who served as Chairman of the Federal Reserve of the United States from 1987 to 2006.

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  • Clintonomics

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  • Clintonomics

    • Economist Alan Greenspan served as the Chair of the Federal Reserve's board of governors throughout Clinton's presidency.
    • Alan Greenspan was the Chairman of the Federal Reserve throughout the Clinton presidency.
  • Debt and the Stock Market Plunge

    • Reagan reappointed Paul Volcker as Chairman of the Federal Reserve, and then appointed monetarist Alan Greenspan to succeed Volcker in 1987.
    • Greenspan preserved the core New Deal safeguards, such as the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), the GI Bill and Social Security, while rolling back what he viewed as the excesses of 1960's and 1970's liberal policies.
  • Yalta and the Postwar World

    • Also present are USSR Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov (far right); Field Marshal Alan Brooke, Admiral of the Fleet Sir Andrew Cunningham, RN, Marshal of the RAF Sir Charles Portal, (standing behind Churchill); George Marshall, Army Chief of Staff and Fleet Admiral William D.
  • Assessing the Great Society

    • Historian Alan Brinkley has suggested that "the gap between the expansive intentions of the War on Poverty and its relatively modest achievements fueled later conservative arguments that government is not an appropriate vehicle for solving social problems. " One of Johnson's aides, Joseph A.
  • The Lost Generation

    • In addition to Hemingway and Fitzgerald, the movement of writers and artists also loosely includes John Dos Passos, Waldo Peirce, Alan Seeger, John Steinbeck, Sherwood Anderson, Aldous Huxley, Malcolm Crowley, Isadora Duncan, James Joyce, Henry Miller, and T.S.
  • The Battle of the Atlantic

    • British codebreakers, with brilliant mathematician Alan Turing leading the team, needed to know the wiring of the special naval Enigma rotors and the destruction of U-33 by HMS Gleaner in February 1940 provided this information.
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