Ben Bernanke takes a scholarly look at what made the Great Recession so bad

Former Fed Chair Ben Bernanke, now a Distinguished Fellow in Residence at the Hutchins Center on Fiscal and Monetary Policy at Brookings, talks with Hutchins Center Director David Wessel about his new research published in the Spring 2018 edition of the Brookings Papers on Economic Activity (BPEA). The paper by Dr. Bernanke illustrates how the financial panic that followed the housing bust—and not the housing bust alone—made the Great Recession so surprisingly severe. Learn more about the research by visiting Ben Bernanke’s blog:https://www.brookings.edu/blog/ben-be... Subscribe! http://www.youtube.com/subscription_c... Follow Brookings on social media! Facebook:   / brookings   Twitter:   / brookingsinst   Instagram:   / brookingsinst   LinkedIn:   / the-brookings-institution