前美联储主席格林斯潘逝世，享年100岁

Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan has passed away at the age of 100. According to NBC News, citing his wife, Andrea Mitchell, the network's chief foreign affairs and chief Washington correspondent, he died at home on Monday from complications of Parkinson's disease.

Greenspan once led the U.S. economy to record expansion, but his legacy was tarnished by the financial crisis that erupted less than two years after his tenure ended. Greenspan served as Fed Chairman for 18 years (from 1987 until his retirement in early 2006), a period during which the U.S. stock market boomed and unemployment remained low. He was regarded more than any of the four presidents he served under or the seven Treasury secretaries he worked with as the "maestro" who kept the economy running smoothly. Roger Ferguson, who served as Vice Chairman of the Federal Reserve from 1999 to 2006, stated, "Alan Greenspan should be remembered as one of the greatest central bankers in the world in the second half of the 20th century, not just within the Fed." Ferguson noted that Greenspan "was among the first to recognize technology's impact on U.S. productivity, allowing the economy to grow faster than expected without stoking inflation." (Jin Shi)