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Alen Greenspand Alan Greenspan: The Money Man At 71 years of age and on his second marriage, Republican Alan Greenspan is often referred to as the second most powerful man in the United States. Born on March 6, 1926, to a stockbroker and a full time homemaker, who later divorced during the crash of 1929, Greenspan amazed his parents and their friends very early on with his ability to solve mathematical puzzles in his head. His mother would bring him out to her friends and have him solve these problems just to impress her them. However, this gift was not to be fully realized until later in Greenspan’s life; after studying music, his passion at the Julliard School. Alan was smitten with the musical world and learned to play the saxophone and clarinet so well that his first professional job was with a swing band (Martin 1-12). At 19, after realizing he didn’t have what it took to make it in the music business, Greenspan became an economics student at New York University and received a PhD many years later without a dissertation and then went on to Columbia University’s doctoral program where he dropped out due greenspan, chairman, martin, alan, position, office, years, powerful, out, fed, greenspan, time, made, later, greenspan’s, federal, after, world, words, took, reserve, power, people, news, new, market, just, economic, decisions, day, became, back, abc, year, word