RIP Alan Greenspan

[jon-nyc]

Gift link to obit

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/22/us/alan-greenspan-dead.html?unlocked_article_code=1.sVA.l5_I.5wMnfzu-UiJ7&smid=url-share

[jon-nyc]

This was very weird news for me to read today. Literally just yesterday, which turned out to be the day he died, I noticed his memoir on my shelf and thought to myself ‘I think he turns 100 this year’, having remember for some odd reason that he was born in 1926. I briefly considered posting about it here and also looking up what other well known figures from public life are or will be 100 this year.

[jodi]

He was 100 and they list the cause of death as complications of Parkinson’s. I wonder if they ever list a cause of death as “really old”. At 100, when you’ve beaten so many odds, seems like cause of death isn’t important, but maybe we need the statistics.

[Mik]

He was born the same year as my dad. Had he not smoked I'm pretty sure he would have outlived Greenspan.

[Tom-K]

I kind of liked him. He kept the economy strong (I don't know if he really did that--but it looked like it) and my generation did ok by him.

[Andrea B]

I had no idea he was still alive.

[Horace]

The only high school teacher I ever had who was memorable was my economics teacher. He said Reagan was not the most powerful man in the world. Greenspan was.

[jon-nyc]

Cool that you had Econ in high school. I was never introduced to a supply and demand curve until 101 in college.

[Horace]

he was actually legendary in my high school. The hardest teacher or whatever. The legend perhaps made me listen harder. I don't even remember his name, but that's on me.