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Bernanke Celebrates the Season

By Gordon Smith, Christine, Hurt, Vic Fleischer, Fred Tung, Lisa Fairfax, David Zaring

In a homage to Passover, Ben Bernanke gave a speech yesterday answering "four questions about the financial crisis."  We'll leave it to Dealbreaker to provide the snark: " And it's not even like you're at Yeshiva. You're at Morehouse College, Bernanke. Morehouse."  It is pretty rare to hear a governor of the Federal Reserve Board give a speech tinged with religious, or indeed any, themes other than bank safety and soundness and macroeconomics.  Which is not to say that this particular talk lacked the old standbys.  The four questions were:

No matter what the season, it is good to hear that the Fed is thinking about inflation.

Full post as published by Conglomerate on April 15, 2009 (boomark / email).