People Are So Mean To Poor Old Ben Bernanke
Keeping accord with weekly tradition, Wonkette channeled its insomnia at 4: 30 a.m. this Monday morning to a week-old version of the New Yorker magazine, online, so as to scan for a "politics article." There was a Ben Bernanke profile, which is EXACTLY what we asked our parents to get us for Christmas, at Best Buy. Jesus Christ, it is a long one though. Shorter than, say,Billy Budd, but easily twice as long asBartleby.Anyway, Bernanke's friends suck: "Bernanke was frustrated by the attacks on his policies, especially when they came from academics whose work he respected. If he moved slowly, people on Wall Street accused him of timidity. If he brought rates down sharply, academic economists accused him of going soft on inflation." Aww shucks. [ New Yorker ]