The day of reckoning was today. My sister and I went to the ENT clinic today (at 3:15, thereby guaranteeing we’d be stuck in some traffic on the way back home). After a half-hour wait we got in to see Drs. Sniezek and Kolb, who were the surgeons who did the cutting last week. Dr. …
Fed Chairman Bernanke testified to the Senate Banking Committee today and basically said nothing useful. More importantly, he didn’t say he’d do anything useful either. Democrats, continuing a recent pattern, were less forceful in their calls for additional action by the Fed. They received from Mr. Bernanke only the assurance that the Fed took the …