The long wait for a name is over. Now begins the long wait to see how the new kid on the block performs.
Meanwhile, we have the president’s assurances. “Ben Bernanke is the right man to build on the record Alan Greenspan has established,” Bush said today in his announcement that the chair of the White House’s Council of Economic Advisors has been nominated as successor to the demigod Alan Greenspan, otherwise known as the chairman of the Federal Reserve.