Ben Bernanke, the former Federal Reserve chair, has joined the masses on Twitter, mostly, it seems, to promote posts on his new Brookings Institution blog. The account, @benbernanke, has existed since 2009, but until Monday it was a locked account with no tweets and zero following.
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This is Bernanke's first tweet:
We're sure it's only a matter of time before he also joins Finance Ello.