‘Anatomy of a Meltdown:’ profiling Ben Bernanke amidst the economic crisis
The man at the center of the current U.S. financial crisis is Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke. The Takeaway talks to New Yorker Staff writer John Cassidy, who profiled Bernanke for his latest piece, “Anatomy of a Meltdown.”
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