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WASHINGTON (AP) - 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 own insights about the nation's economy.
Greenspan's book "The Age of Turbulence" hits bookstores later 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 on Feb. 1, 2006, the day his successor — Ben Bernanke — took over.
"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!"
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