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Bernanke Says 2008 Crash Worst In History

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Mark Melin
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The 2008 derivatives crash was the worst in economic history, a potentially more apocalyptic event than the market crash that led to the Great Depression, said two of the men who are credited with saving the economy during that period of time.

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Bernanke Says 2008 Crash Worst In History

Bernanke and Geithner's testimony regarding the 2008 crash

In court documents, former US Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke and former US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner provided individual testimony regarding the crash of 2008.

For the first time Bernanke, known as a student of the Great Depression, said...

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Mark Melin is an alternative investment practitioner whose specialty is recognizing the impact of beta market environment on a technical trading strategy. A portfolio and industry consultant, wrote or edited three books including High Performance Managed Futures (Wiley 2010) and The Chicago Board of Trade’s Handbook of Futures and Options (McGraw-Hill 2008) and taught a course at Northwestern University's executive education program.