Ben S Bernanke: Monitoring the financial system Speech by Mr Ben S Bernanke, Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, at the 49th Annual Conference on “Bank structure and competition”, sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, 10 May 2013.
But our view at that time – tentatively – was that we were not witnessing a repeat of the events of late 2008. Admittedly, the second half of 2011 saw some very anxious moments.