Overheard: Comedian Ben Bernanke
[Financial Analysis and Commentary]</br></br>Faced with a slowing economy, stubbornly high unemployment, volatile markets and a split on the monetary-policy committee, Ben Bernanke still has time for humor.</br></br>Asked after his speech to the Economic Club of Minnesota about disagreements over what the Federal Reserve should do next, Chairman Bernanke joked: "When two people always agree, one is redundant."</br></br>And, while markets fell on disappointment that he offered no new commitments to easing, Mr. Bernanke took full advantage of the final soft-ball question from Steve Sanger, former CEO of General Mills. It avoided addressing the economy and the Fed's response at all. Instead, Mr Bernanke was asked what he thought of actor Paul Giamatti's portrayal of him in the HBO movie "Too Big to Fail." He said he had never seen it: "I saw the original."</br></br>---