Fuck Yeah Ben Bernanke: Archive

evangelizing for ben

Carroll: I saw your Ben Bernanke
   post on Tumblr
11: 19 PM I have succumbed. He is pretty sexy in that "Die Hard" villain sort of way
 me: !!
   that makes me so happy
Carroll: I hope he does an interview with "Tiger Beat"
   Our young girls need new role models!
 me: YES
   tiger beat!
   he's so cute
   I want to marry a man pretty much just like him
 Carroll: He's our pin-up
   Helps out around the house
 me: oh yes
   takes out the trash!
Carroll: Yeah, Zack Morris would never do that

Dec 17th

Dec 16th

“Bernanke has tried harder than any previous Fed chairman to explain his actions...”

– Michael Grunwald, “Person of the Year,” Time Magazine, December 16, 2009

Dec 16th

“He is not, in other words, a typical Beltway power broker. He’s shy. He...”

– Michael Grunwald, Time Magazine, “Person of the Year,” December 16, 2009

Dec 16th

Dec 5th

The world really IS run by Jews holding sacks of... →

But that cannot beat Krugman’s headline: “The Protocols of the Elders of Finance.” Bernanke is such a mensch though. He’d dole out a little among the other 29 before stealing the whole thing. I’ve sort of soured on Ben a little. Maybe my interest in him is cashed? Or maybe I realized he’s not as soft and fluffy as his persona makes him out to be. Just because...

Dec 5th

Fuck yeah Paul Krugman →

aka the subtitle of this blog. I love him, but I don’t have a crush on him.

Dec 5th

“Petey Says: December 4th, 2009 at 2:36 pm “This is a serious question,...”

– Commenter on Yglesias. The best description of Obama’s administration (or lack of administration of the executive branch) I’ve read.

Dec 5th

I want Paul Krugman to be head of the fed... →

…and I want Ben Bernanke to have an honorary position so I can daydream about his eyelashes.

Dec 5th

Dec 3rd

Nov 13th

Nov 12th

Nov 11th

follow the market -- the market for ben

me: http://fuckyeahbenbernanke.tumblr.com/
 is there something weird about my crush on our federal reserve chairman?
 Doug: you really have to ask?
 Doug: i love this tumblr
 me: charlotte's the only follower besides me
 Doug: i'm never going to follow it though
 me: aw why?
 follow it
 Doug: because i don't need cute ben pictures filling up my dashboard

Nov 10th

The best news I've heard all day →

four more years of aggregate demand — at least from this woman. Ben Bernanke makes me feel (monetary) base things.

Nov 10th

Nov 9th

Nov 4th