Alan Brill, senior managing director for Kroll Advisory Solutions, is optimistic that the wake-up call will be received promptly.

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Mr Bernanke must also be acutely sensitive to the common criticism that his predecessor, Alan Greenspan, overshot the mark by dropping the federal funds rate to 1% in the wake of the downturn of 2001, thereby encouraging the markets into a renewed phase of exuberance.

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