First rule of leadership: know your subject

Amusing story about a congresswoman trying to find out who to blame for the credit crunch.  Shows that if you are trying to mount an attack you better know who you’re dealing with.

A congresswoman at a House of Representatives Budget Committee hearing was seeking to pin down which Wall Street firms were responsible for the securitisation of sub-prime mortgages.

She began: “Seeing as how you were the former CEO of Goldman Sachs …”

A bemused Bernanke interrupted: “No, no, no, you’re confusing me with the Treasury Secretary [Hank Paulson, the former Goldman Sachs bigwig] …”

To read more on this story, click here.

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