Washington – Famously opaque when he was chairman of the Federal Reserve, Alan Greenspan the author says he relished the opportunity to break out of “Fedspeak” and share his insights about the nation’s economy.
Greenspan’s book “The Age of Turbulence” hits bookstores this month. Greenspan ran the Fed for 18 1/2 years – the second-longest-serving chief of the central bank. He says he began to write the book Feb. 1, 2006, the day successor Ben Bernanke took over.
Some of Greenspan’s musings are contained in a blog, dated Friday, posted on : “I wanted to make the leap from writing economic analysis to writing in the first person about what I’d experienced. And after years of talking ‘Fedspeak’ in carefully calibrated congressional testimony – I could finally use my own voice!”
