Bernanke Starts New Role As Yellen Takes Fed Helm

The New York Times: WASHINGTON — For the last eight years, on most weekdays and many weekends, Ben S. Bernanke was driven to work as chairman of the Federal Reserve. On Monday, he drove himself to a new job as an economic studies fellow at the Brookings Institution, a research group about a mile north of his old office.

Mr. Bernanke will work on a book about his time at the Fed, and Brookings said he would contribute to an initiative on government economic policy.

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