Thrust into crisis, Bernanke tested bounds of Fed policy

Ben Bernanke spent his whole life training for the job of Fed chairman – even if he didn’t know it at the time. One of the Great Depression’s most prominent scholars, Bernanke inherited a historic slump of his own not long after taking the helm of the Federal Reserve eight years ago. He took …

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Thrust into crisis, Bernanke tested bounds of Fed policy