Is Ben Bernanke Having Fun Yet?
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Is Ben Bernanke Having Fun Yet?
,<a href="http://www.mevic-carbon.com"><a href="javascript:;" onClick="javascript:tagshow(event, 'Carbon');" target="_self"><u><strong>Carbon</strong></u></a> <a href="javascript:;" onClick="javascript:tagshow(event, 'fiber');" target="_self"><u><strong>fiber</strong></u></a> body kit</a>Is Ben Bernanke Having Fun Yet?NINE days ago, Ben S. Bernanke, the Federal Reserve chairman,#x caught a Friday-night flightCord embroidery fabricfrom here so he could address 1,100 graduates at the University of South Carolina the next morning about “The Economics of Happiness.” After the speech, he took a call in his hotel room from Jean-Claude Trichet, head of the European Central Bank, and the next day pledged billions of dollars to help Europe stave off a financial crisis ― a flashback to the huge lending programs the Fed put together in 2008 to forestall economic collapse at home.Mr. Bernanke, 56, hasn’t had much time to reflect on whether history’s verdict on his extraordinary actions of recent years will be harsh or forgiving. Nor has he had time to read the spate of new books about how he and two Treasury secretaries, Henry M. Paulson Jr. and Timothy F. Geithner, navigated a maelstrom that left millions of Americans jobless, homeless or broke.Nominated last August to a second four-year term by President Obama, Mr. Bernanke nearly saw his career in public service scuttled by widespread discontent about lax regulation of Wall Street and historic federal bailouts that rescued well-heeled bankers from their own mistakes. After a raucous debate in January, the SenateCord embroidery fabricconfirmed Mr. Bernanke by a vote of 70 to 30 ― the lowest vote of support for any Fed chief since the central bank’s creation in 1913.Today, early in his fifth year as chairman, Mr. Bernanke faces challenges far different from any that his predecessor, Alan Greenspan, confronted in his 18-year tenure. As the nation’s all-powerful arbiter of interest rates, which directly affect banks’ willingness to lend the funds that fuel the economy, Mr. Bernanke has held the benchmark short-term rate at nearly zero since December 2008, aiming to shore up faltering financial institutions.He has to figure out not only when to start raising rates ― weighing high unemployment against the fear of inflation ― but also how to begin shrinking the Fed’s balance sheet, which#x has more thanCord embroidery fabricdoubled, to $2.3 trillion, since the crisis started.相关的主题文章：
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