WSJ Lets Bernanke Play Fast and Loose in Lecturing About the Fed and the Economy

The Wall Street Journal let Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben Bernanke get away with a bit of Three-card Monte in a lecture he gave to George Washington University about the Fed's role in the housing bubble. According to the WSJ Bernanke absolved the Fed of blame for the housing bubble because of its low interest rate policy. He noted that other countries, like the UK, had housing bubbles even though they had more restrictive monetary policy.

This international comparison is very neat in...