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Overtveldt, Johan van.

Bernanke's test : Ben Bernanke, Alan Greenspan, and the drama of the central banker / Johan Van Overtveldt. - Chicago : Agate, c2017. - 287 p. : 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 267-279) and index.

Pt. 1. The stage is set: the history of the fed and the undertaker's risk-management approach -- Pt. 2. Ben Bernanke and his intimate knowledge of the Great Depression.

"This is a ground-breaking look at Federal Reserve chair Ben Bernanke, the man steering the U.S. economy through the greatest financial crisis since the Great Depresion, and the ways which the challenges facing Bernanke were created, in large part, by his predecessor, Alan Greenspan"--Cover p. 4.

ISBN: 9781932841510

LCCN: 2010511400

Subjects--Personal Names:
Bernanke, Ben.
Greenspan, Alan, 1926-

Subjects--Corporate Names:
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.)

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Banks and banking, Central--United States.
Monetary policy--United States.
Financial crises--United States.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
United States--Economic policy.

LC Class. No.: HD2117.I44

Dewey Class. No.: 332.1/1092273