{"podcast":{"title":"History As It Happens","slug":"history-as-it-happens-7112446","podcast_index_feed_id":7112446,"rss_url":"https://feeds.libsyn.com/317972/rss","website_url":"https://historyasithappens.supercast.com/","image_url":"https://static.libsyn.com/p/assets/4/4/d/1/44d17a1c5092053027a2322813b393ee/Martin_Square_241008.png","author":"Martin Di Caro","episode_count":611,"summary":"Discover how the past shapes the present with the best historians in the world. Everything happening today comes from something, somewhere. History As It Happens features interviews with today's top scholars and thinkers, interwoven with audio from history's archive. Subscribe for ad-free episodes, early access, and bonus content. https://historyasithappens.supercast.com/","last_synced_at":"2026-07-30T18:21:01.807043+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/history-as-it-happens-7112446"},"episode":{"title":"What Alan Greenspan Left Us (Bonus)","slug":"what-alan-greenspan-left-us-bonus","published_at":"2026-06-24T20:54:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/history-as-it-happens-7112446/what-alan-greenspan-left-us-bonus","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/history-as-it-happens-7112446","url":"https://historyasithappens.libsyn.com/what-alan-greenspan-left-us-bonus","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.libsyn.com/secure/historyasithappens/HH-FREE-260624.mp3?dest-id=2566565","summary":"Subscribe now to listen to the entire 24-minute episode (or preview 8 minutes). One of the most influential central bankers in U.S. history, Alan Greenspan, who chaired the Federal Reserve for 19 years, died on June 22. He was 100. Greenspan was once treated as an oracle whose policies and arcane pronouncements moved markets. After the '08 crash, however, his legacy was badly tarnished because he had embraced a quasi-religious faith in markets to regulate themselves — a fantasy that led to ruin shortly after he departed the Fed. Our guest is historian Nelson Lichtenstein, the author of A Fabulous Failure: The Clinton Presidency and the Transformation of American Capitalism .","meta_description":"Subscribe now to listen to the entire 24-minute episode (or preview 8 minutes). One of the most influential central bankers in U.S. history, Alan Greenspa…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":495,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/history-as-it-happens-7112446/episodes/what-alan-greenspan-left-us-bonus/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/history-as-it-happens-7112446/what-alan-greenspan-left-us-bonus.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}