Greenspan

Under Greenspan, the Fed had been slowly tightening the screws, after leaving rates untouched throughout 1993.

Greenspan’s writing is both engrossing and approachable, just like her recipes.

Alan Greenspan lasted as the head of the Federal Reserve until 2006, leaving at the age of 79.

Carbon Democracy: Political Power in the Age of Oil As even Alan Greenspan admitted, the Iraq War was “largely about oil.”

He would level the taxes between capital and labor (no more special capital gains tax), and put an end to the “Greenspan put”.

The unassuming, charisma-free central banker never set out to be a player the way his predecessor Alan Greenspan did.

And Alan Greenspan, clutching a copy of Atlas Shrugged, boils in a bath of molten gold.