All you need to know about Ben Bernanke...

...can be summed up in one sentence, and lambert has written that sentence.

It's actually a narrative trope: A "rescuer" appears at a crime scene and displays great heroism, and ultimately is unmasked as the perp.

Paul Krugman makes the same point here -- yet ends his post with the words "...there’s nobody I’d rather have in his position. Congratulations, Ben." You're creeping me out, Paul.