Ben Bernanke, Chairman, Federal Reserve Bank
Doomed to Repeat the Mistakes of the Past?
Ben has made a career of studying the lessons learned from the Great Depression to come up with scenarios to prevent the next great crash. Despite being everyone's first choice to succeed the Maestro, Alan Greenspan, he couldn't avoid stepping in the mess that was 2008 and getting his hands dirty.
"At this juncture, the impact on the broader economy and financial markets of the problems in the subprime market seems likely to be contained." -- March 2007
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