The Real Bernanke
March 15, 2012 at 10:14 AM EDT
Roger Lowenstein has a very revealing portrait of Ben Bernanke in The Atlantic: But his restrained manner belies a forcefulness and a willingness to take political heat. Early in 2008, the Fed was mulling a small interest-rate cut to ease the escalating mortgage crisis; cutting rates was controversial because hawkish economists, of whom there were [...]