Ben Bernanke's Eventful Years at the Fed
February 07, 2014 at 15:50 PM EST
When Ben Bernanke succeeded Alan Greenspan as chairman of the Federal Reserve Board in February 2006, the economy seemed to growing smoothly. Unemployment was under 5 percent. Little did the former Princeton economics professor know what was to befall him. Within 18 months, it became clear a housing bubble had broken