Bernanke and the Dollar…Part Two

February 7th, 2010 admin

In December, I posted about Ben Bernanke ( Bernanke’s Background and Near-Term US Monetary Policy ), specifically about how a basic understanding of Bernanke’s academic background and philosophical approach to monetary policy could be useful for predicting the general direction of interest rates, irrespective of prevailing economic conditions. This post, is somewhere between a follow-up and a step back. By this, I mean that when I last wrote about Bernanke, it was already a foregone conclusion that Bernanke would be approved for a second term as Chairman of the Fed. While his confirmation is still pretty…


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