At least no one's grilling him about abortion

Individ has an informative post up about Fed Chairman nominee Dr. Ben S. Bernanke ("ber-NAN-kee"), his views as reported in the Washington Post (online), and Individ's comments regarding those views.

Examples (for those of you who are usually loathe to actually, you know, follow relevant links that are so generously provided for your edification):

On The Great Depression

Bernanke: Without ... policy blunders by the Federal Reserve, there is little reason to believe that the 1929 crash would have been followed by more than a moderate dip in U.S. economic activity. (October 2000)

Individ's Commentary: Good, the incoming head of the Fed realizes how dangerous the Fed, in particular, and government, specifically, can be. The misery of the Great Depression was caused by TOO MUCH GOVERNMENT.

On Outsourcing

Bernanke: Few are aware that the United States runs a healthy trade surplus in services — that is, there is considerably more [and higher-value] 'insourcing' to the United States than there is outsourcing from the United States abroad. (June 2004)

Individ's Commentary: So we should shut up about how we are exporting jobs overseas. We need to reduce our own tax and regulatory burdens, shut up, and COMPETE.

Very encouraging indeed.  Plus, I'm willing to bet that most of you learned something you had never before known in both of Bernanke's above-cited comments.

But don't let that satisfy you, knowing full well that there is more where that came from.  C'mon...click the link.  You can do it, and you'll feel so much smarter and better about yourself having done so.  Good for the self-esteem and claptrap like that, you know.  Just takes one finger!  Come on—clicky, clicky, clicky...