De held om op te kotsen.

Een nieuw artikel van de zogenaamd respectabele Amerikaanse journalist Roger Lowenstein in The Atlantic Magazine. Ben Bernanke is de held die de wereld gered heeft van een catastrofe.

Om van te kotsen:

“Bernanke does not use gold as a measuring stick; he does not count the money in circulation as a basis for determining interest rates, as Volcker did, or tried to do. His mentor, Milton Friedman, thought the business of adjusting interest rates was so tricky, it would be better to yield the job to a computer. But Bernanke thinks a human can do it. He sticks to his notion of what inflation should be, and his prediction of where it is headed, trusting that his judgment will tell him when to add more liquidity, when to subtract. And, to a greater extent than he is credited with now, history may marvel that Bernanke has been a success.”

Positief denken: dit word lachen binnen een paar jaar. Als het nog zo lang blijft duren…