Reflecting on the Financial Meltdown
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke is in Jackson Hole, Wyoming today at the annual meeting of economists and central bankers. Bernanke will address the group with a speech entitled ?Reflections on a Year of Crisis.? We speak with Jesse Eisinger, a senior reporter at ProPublica, asking him to provide his own reflections on Bernanke’s actions during this economic “year of crisis.”
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