在他的最后一次美联储理事会会议上，时任纽约联储主席蒂莫西·盖特纳（Timothy Geithner）对格林斯潘进行了如今看上去颇令人尴尬的高度赞扬，说格林斯潘的名誉在未来还会继续上升而不是下降。
At his final Board meeting, Timothy Geithner, then-President of the New York Fed, delivered what now seems an embarrassing encomium, saying that Greenspan’s stellar reputation was likely to grow, rather than diminish, in the future.