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Derek Thompson - Derek Thompson is a senior editor at The Atlantic, where he oversees business coverage for the website.
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He is a visiting research fellow at the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget at the New America Foundation. Derek has also written for Slate, BusinessWeek, and the Daily Beast. He has appeared as a guest on radio and television networks, including NPR, the BBC, CNBC, and MSNBC.
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Democrats, Republicans and Bernanke

By Derek Thompson

Apr 17 2009, 5:14 PM ET Comment

Over the past year, Mr. Bernanke has become more assertive in responding to the financial crisis, and Democrats presumably like such assertiveness more than Republicans do. But the Fed was already acting aggressively a year ago. So most of the switch in attitudes seems to reflect partisanship.

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