Quote of the day
What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
Ben Bernanke
Born: December 13, 1953 (age 71)
Bio: Ben Shalom Bernanke is an American economist at the Brookings Institution who served two terms as chairman of the Federal Reserve, the central bank of the United States from 2006 to 2014.
Known for:
- The Courage to Act (2015)
- The Federal Reserve and the Financial Crisis (2013)
- Essays on the great depression (2000)
- Principles of Economics (1982)