Bernanke vs. Deflationary Collapse

By Doug Casey and Louis James
January 27, 2010
Stowe, Vermont, U.S.A.

And Bernanke is always presented as a Ph.D., a scholar of the Great Depression, its causes, and how to cure such an economic downturn. But he hasn’t prevented an economic catastrophe — he’s done just the opposite of what needs to be done, and there’s going to be hell to pay.

It’s quite perverse. Look at Alan Greenspan. In the 1960s, he was an acolyte of Ayn Rand and wrote a famous essay defending the gold standard, which I read in her book, Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal. And then he goes on to become the most inflationary Fed chairman in history until Bernanke superseded him.