Yes, you may have thought it was impossible, but the painfully absurd is the reality here in Washington Policy Land. Foreign Policy picked Ben Bernanke, the man's whose inept management at the Fed (second only to Greenspan) brought us the Great Recession as the greatest thinker of 2009.
While Bernanke certainly deserves some credit for preventing his failure from leading to a complete collapse of the financial system, a greater thinker might have thought of a way to preserve the financial system that didn't leave the Wall Street boys richer than ever and 15 million people out of work.
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