Alan Greenspan, who as Federal Reserve chairman for more than 18 years presided over the longest U.S. economic expansion then on record and won acclaim as the “Maestro” of American prosperity—only to share the blame for the crisis that followed his departure—died Monday at his home in Washington. He was 100.
The cause was complications of Parkinson’s disease, said his wife of 29 years, NBC News correspondent Andrea Mitchell. The couple married in 1997 and had no children; Ms. Mitchell is his only immediate survivor.
Across 18½ years and four presidents, from 1987 to 2006, Mr. Greenspan was treated as something close to infallible. Investors…
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