Is Ben Bernanke smarter than we think?

The press have pilloried the new Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke for being no clearer in his economic forecasts than Alan Greenspan, his famously opaque predecessor. But gold commentator Paul van Eeden thinks he's been given a rough ride. In fact, he thinks Ben Bernanke is level-headed and clear thinking - though that could easily change...

The new game in town is trying to outguess Ben Bernanke. It's the same game that was played last year, and the year before, and before that... only then it was called Outguess Alan Greenspan.

I got a real chuckle from an article in Wednesday's Wall Street Journal; it was so good, I just have to quote a bit from it:

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