Should You Read Ben Bernanke's Blog?

摘要

Ben Bernanke's blog-titled, with the caution of a former Fed chairman, Ben Bernanke's Blog-is for people with an insatiable interest in inflation targeting, the zero lower bound on rates (page 8), and the term premium on 10-year Treasury notes. In other words, people who got food thrown at them in middle school. Yet it has its charms. Bernanke has fought an online duel with ex-Treasury Secretary Larry Summers, himself a skilled combatant; criticized Germany for its trade surplus; and, on April 15, offered what looked like unsolicited advice to the rate-setting Federal Open Market Committee. He posted 10 times in the blog's first 17 days-pretty good for a busy man, now a distinguished fellow in residence at the Brookings Institution.