Alan Greenspan dies at 100

Alan Greenspan, who served five terms as chair of the Federal Reserve, died on Monday at the age of 100. 

Greenspan’s wife, longtime NBC News journalist Andrea Mitchell, said in a statement to the network that her husband died from complications of Parkinson’s disease. 

“He was a giant of a man who helped shape the U.S. economy for decades under presidents of both parties, but was always honest in acknowledging his mistakes,” Mitchell added, according to NBC News.

“To me he was my husband, who shaped my life from our very first date in 1984. He had ‘irrational exuberance’........

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