"Should Obama reappoint Bernanke in 2010?"

Asks the Mortgage Insider. Of course not. One reason? This (from a New Yorker profile):

In 1999, the height of the tech stock bubble, Bernanke and a colleague gave a presentation at a conference, arguing that the Fed should “ignore bubbles and stick to its traditional policy of controlling inflation.

Bubbles cause huge misallocation of capital. It also creates winners and losers in a completely random fashion. Or worse, since the naïve investor is usually the loser when a bubble expands and then pops.


posted by Quiddity at 12/09/2008 01:58:00 PM