The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World
By Alan Greenspan
Allen Lane £25, 531 pages
FT bookshop price: £20

Say what you like about Alan Greenspan, but his perfect timing has been unimpaired by retirement. The former Federal Reserve chairman, who departed office last year after nearly two decades as head of America’s central bank, has managed to arrange a novel form of financial market crisis just as his memoirs are published.