Banishing the reasons behind investor blues
The year ahead could be “a very good one for the American economy,” Ben Bernanke, the chairman of the Federal Reserve, declared last week. If he turns out to be right, these words could probably be applied to the world economy as a whole.
Since Bernanke, even more than other central bankers, has spent the past four years warning of perils such as the “fiscal cliff” and the dismal condition of the US labour market, this statement, delivered in the carefully worded peroration of a speech to the prestigious Economic Club of New York, marks an important turning point.
