Date: Wed, 8 May 2002 10:16:16 -0700 To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com From: Bradford DeLong <jbdelong at uclink.berkeley.edu> Subject: Re: new Fedsters coming Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed"
>>I never thought of Bernanke as a Repug. Is that new?
>
>Dunno. My guess was that he was a Clintonish Dem. But what does that
>mean these days? Greenspan, echt Republican, has presided over one
>of the easiest monetary regimes ever.
>
>Doug
I found out in the mid-1990s, when I was thinking of putting him in the candidate pool. "But... But... But he seems so normal!" was the surprised response of everyone when we in the Clinton Treasury discovered this.
We kept it secret so as not to blacken Bernanke's reputation...
:-)
Brad DeLong