Professor Bernanke's Bogus Contra-factual, Part 1: The Myth Of Great Depression 2.0 | David Stockman

``The claim that the Great Depression was caused by the Fed's failure to go on a bond buying spree in 1930-1933 was Milton Friedman's monumental error. Professor Bernanke's scholarship amounted to little more than xeroxing Friedman's flawed work, and then shouting loudly in the Eccles Building boardroom at the time of the Lehman bankruptcy that Great Depression 2.0 was lurking just around the corner.''