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“He was more right than wrong about the major issues of the day,” says CFR expert Roger Ferguson, recalling his time working alongside former Federal Reserve Chair Alan Greenspan, who has passed at age 100. “More importantly, he was part of a group of economic policymakers through the second half of the last century that really helped the U.S. economy grow in a global way that overcame the big challenge of the day, which was the Soviet Union.”
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“He was more right than wrong about the major issues of the day,” says CFR expert Roger Ferguson, recalling his time working alongside former Federal Reserve Chair Alan Greenspan, who has passed at age 100. “More importantly, he was part of a group of economic policymakers through the second half of the last century that really helped the U.S. economy grow in a global way that overcame the big challenge of the day, which was the Soviet Union.”
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