• Business Week's excellent overview, which included this inadvertently funny paragraph:
The financial markets won't wait long to test Bernanke's mettle as Fed chairman. Although stock markets bounded higher on Oct. 24, partly in relief that Bush had avoided nominating an unknown loyalist to the Fed job, the bond market and the foreign currency market were more skeptical.
Now that, my friends, is the soft bigotry of low expectations.
• Another Business Week piece, this one detailing his relationship with the White House and his likely degree of independence from Bush.
• The Economist has an introduction to Bernanke, which focuses primarily on his similarities and differences with Alan Greenspan.
• They also took it upon themselves to poll a spectrum of prominent economists (from Robert Reich to Milton Friedman) on the pick. Nobody can bring themselves to say a bad word about the guy.
