E. J. Dionne on Ben Bernanke

E. J. Dionne Jr has some concerns about Ben Bernanke’s nomination as Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board and expresses them in this Washington Post column:

No Job for an Ideologue

You’d hope that the new chairman of the Federal Reserve Board would learn not only from Alan Greenspan’s successes but also from his failures. There is reason to worry that having a Fed chairman so close to President Bush’s policymaking apparatus will give us something other than the best of these two worlds…