Five years have passed since Alan Greenspan stepped down from the most influential
banking job in the world. (Now that’s how to leave at the right time.)
Described in books, interviews and profiles too numerous to mention as ‘the most powerful regulator/person on earth’, he served as Chairman of the Federal Reserve for 19 years. For reasons of sheer longevity, perhaps Greenspan deserves to be called the architect of the modern global economy more than any of his elected contemporaries.
So it’s not insignificant that, by the accounts of his friends back in 1950s New York, Greenspan was something of a fruit-loop as you will discover tonight if you watch ‘All Watched Over By Machines Of Loving Grace’, the new Adam Curtis documentary which begins on BBC 2 at 9pm.
The first film in a three-part series, this episode features interviews with Nathaniel and Barbara Branden.
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