In a lightly attended question and answer session following a speech yesterday at the Economics Club of New York, Bernanke said, "Yes, my first term has been remarkably successful and I have former Fed chairman Alan Greenspan to thank. I feel like I've not even come close to filling his shoes" Many analysts say that crackdowns by Greenspan on hedge funds and other Wall Street firms and "nipping in the bud" the nascent "shadow banking system" in the late-1990s and growing use of "derivatives" a few years later have fostered years of steady growth, moderately rising asset prices, and economic stability that some now call "boring". Full Article at Seeking Alpha