# The Man Who Broke the Global Economy

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Podcast: [The David McWilliams Podcast](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-david-mcwilliams-podcast-512453)
Published: 2026-06-30T03:00:00+00:00
Episode link: https://shows.acast.com/the-david-mcwilliams-podcast/episodes/the-man-who-broke-the-global-economy
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## Resource

Alan Greenspan just died at 100, and he might be the most consequential person of the last 30 years that nobody talks about. We unpack the wild story of the jazz clarinettist turned Fed chairman, the Ayn Rand cult he came from, the "Greenspan Put" that quietly rigged Wall Street, and why his fingerprints are all over Ireland's 2008 crash. Plus a strange historical twist: was Alan Greenspan related to the Jewish teenager whose shooting triggered Kristallnacht? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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