Ben S Bernanke: Monetary policy and the global economy Speech by Mr Ben S Bernanke, Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, at the Department of Economics and STICERD (Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines) Public Discussion in association with the Bank of England, London School of Economics, London, 25 March 2013.
*  *  *  I’m very pleased to participate in this conference honoring my good friend Mervyn King. As Mervyn noted in a recent speech in New York, we had adjoining offices at MIT as young academics and never imagined that 30 years later we still would be colleagues – as central bankers.1 Now, as then, I value his advice and insight.