There could be trouble ahead
“YOU'RE right, we did it,” Ben Bernanke told Milton Friedman in a speech celebrating the Nobel laureate's 90th birthday in 2002. He was referring to Mr Friedman's conclusion that central bankers were responsible for much of the suffering in the Depression. “But thanks to you,” the future chairman of the Federal Reserve continued, “we won't do it again.” Nine years later Mr Bernanke's peers are congratulating themselves for delivering on that promise. “We prevented a Great Depression,” the Bank of England's governor... Читать дальше...
