Ex-Fed chief talks '08 crisis at Bush Institute

DALLAS (AP) — Ben Bernanke, who led the Federal Reserve during the 2008 economic crisis, said Monday that his upcoming book will give him the chance to look at the decisions he made and also serve as “therapy.”

“I think that more than just selling a book, I think I’m really interested in the personal therapy here,” the former Fed chairman said Monday at a conference on monetary policy hosted by former President George W. Bush’s policy institute in Dallas. “I really want to go back and think through all these decisions and recognizing that many of them were made under very tight timelines under very difficult circumstances, try to understand where we did the right thing, where we made mistakes, try to really come to grips with all of this.