Alan Greenspan
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 Alan Greenspan facts

• He currently works as a private adviser and provides consulting for firms through his company, Greenspan Associates LLC
• First appointed Federal Reserve chairman by President Ronald Reagan in August 1987, he was reappointed at successive four-year intervals until retiring on January 31, 2006, after the second-longest tenure in the position (behind William McChesney Martin)
• Greenspan came to the Federal Reserve Board from a consulting career
• Although he was subdued in his public appearances, favorable media coverage raised his profile to a point that several observers likened him to a "rock star"
• Democratic leaders of Congress criticized him for politicizing his office because of his support for Social Security privatization and tax cuts, which they felt would increase the deficit
• The easy-money policies of the Fed during Greenspan's tenure have been suggested by some to be a leading cause of the dotcom bubble and subprime mortgage crisis, which occurred within a year of his departure from the Fed, and have, said the Wall Street Journal, "tarnished his reputation
• " Yale economist Robert Shiller argues that "once stocks fell, real estate became the primary outlet for the speculative frenzy that the stock market had unleashed"