Is Ben Bernanke Having Fun Yet?
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/16/business/16ben.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&src=igBy SEWELL CHAN
Published: May 14, 2010
NINE days ago, Ben S. Bernanke, the Federal Reserve chairman, caught a Friday-night flight from 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.
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