Alan Greenspan, the 13th Chairman of the Federal Reserve and one of the most consequential central bankers in American history, has died at the age of 100. The Federal Reserve confirmed his passing with a statement noting “deep sadness” over the loss of its former leader.
Greenspan died on June 22, 2026, from complications related to Parkinson’s disease, according to his wife, NBC News journalist Andrea Mitchell. He had turned 100 in March, just months before his death.
A tenure that shaped modern monetary policy
Greenspan’s nearly 19-year run atop the Federal Reserve, from August 1987 to January 2006, remains one of the longest chairmanships in the institution’s history. He served under four presidents: Reagan, Bush Sr., Clinton, and Bush Jr.
During that stretch, US GDP contracted only once. He navigated the 1987 stock market crash just weeks after taking office, steered monetary policy through the longest peacetime economic expansion in US history, and presided over the dizzying rise of the dot-com bubble.
