Books by Ben S. Bernanke

I am pleased to have received an autographed copy of this very carefully done work .  I think it is (by far) the best treatment of what the Fed has been up to since the 1970s, at least on the monetary policy front.  There really isn’t anyone who would know better than Ben, keeping in mind he was not only Fed chair but also a top, possibly Nobel-quality monetary economist and also economic historian.  The clarity and writing quality are high.

I’ve been rereading some of the essays in Ben Bernanke’s Essays on the Great Depression , which of course is self-recommending.  I thought this passage summed up some relevant truths: