By Christopher Carroll
In a speech in his hometown of Dillon, South Carolina, Ben Bernanke, US Federal Reserve chairman, recently promised that the Fed would “forcefully deploy all the tools at our disposal” in responding to the financial crisis.
This is excellent news, since the tools at the Fed’s disposal are awesome, and if deployed forcefully enough, could almost certainly end the acute stage of our financial panic.
The Fed has already shown remarkable boldness in responding to the crisis; if not for that boldness, financial markets and the world economy would be in much worse trouble than they are now. Read more
