Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan has eked ahead of the late Pope John Paul II by receiving the second-highest advance for a personal memoir, reportedly more than $8.5 million. The Greenspan payment is still far behind that to former President Bill Clinton, whose memoir deal fetched him more than $10 million. According to The New York Times, Greenspan plans to cut back on any speaking engagements while he works on the book, the first draft of which he says he will do by himself. He plans to collaborate with a ghost writer after that. The Times quotes Greenspan as saying he will not focus on "personality aberrations, except as they affect policy decision-making."