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Bernanke Sees Lesson in the Depression

Appeared on August 17, 2007

The relevance of Bernanke&#39;s work to today is that it helps him tread the fine line of allowing individual investors -- and firms, if necessary -- to fail while avoiding credit market gridlock,&#39;&#39; said <strong>Joe Mason</strong>, professor of finance at Drexel University in Philadelphia. The message from the recent interventions is that there is no gridlock.''