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Fed Up: The Cost of Ben Bernanke’s Monetary Kamikaze Mission

By Troy Senik
Thursday, November 11 2010

In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king. Translation: In a Washington where most decision makers must face the voters on a regular basis, a man with an appointed four-year term can act with impunity unavailable to those who have to answer to the electorate.

Such is the story of Dr. Ben Bernanke, the Princeton economist turned Federal Reserve Chairman who spent a lifetime studying the Fed’s role in the Great Depression only to head the organization at the historical moment most closely approximating that previous crisis. Had he been Fed chair at virtually any…

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