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Ben Bernanke
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Ben Bernanke
An economist who became Chairman of the Federal Reserve in 2005. He presided over the 2000s economic crisis, supervising the bailouts and forced mergers of a number of American financial institutions. He was both lauded and criticized for favoring an expansive monetary policy, which proponents claimed kept the American economy from collapsing in the crisis, but which others argued would lead to inflation. He is considered an expert on the Great Depression.


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Most troubling is the fact that Ben Bernanke was a chief advocate of easy money in the Greenspan-led Fed, earning the nickname Helicopter Ben for his threat to throw cash from helicopters to boost spending," said Browne.
Helicopter Ben showering Wall St with billions of freshly printed bucks should drive the value down, but it's up.
That earned him the label Helicopter Ben from critics who disliked the idea of expanding the money supply in that way.
 
 
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