The courage to act
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.)
Banks and banking, central
Economists, biography
Monetary policy, united states
Central Banks and banking
Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009
Financial crises
Monetary policy
New York Times bestseller
New York Times reviewed
Biography
In 2006, Ben S. Bernanke was appointed chair of the Federal Reserve, capping a meteoric trajectory from a rural South Carolina childhood to professorships at Stanford and Princeton, to public service in Washington's halls of power. There would be no time to celebrate, however -- the burst of the hou…
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