It's interesting to read that Ben Bernanke is considering leading his post as Federal Reserve Chairman . He's had a hard time the last few years, this recession no doubt is causing him to consider new employment.  I can certainly understand his frustration, he's implemented the standard Keynesianist solutions to crisis but they have not been effective. You can really blame him for this, it's worked so many times in the past. The problem here is that demand is not available. The flaw in the Keynesian position is that demand has to exist in order for recovery to happen, merely putting more money out is not enough.  We've seen this from 3 rounds of quantitative easing.  I think the man is probably out of ideas and is tired of the stress of the job. I can certainly sympathize with that. I imagine that as the head of the Fed people are looking at him to solve the current crisis, that frankly isn't working.  Many would agree,  post-Keynesianists are looking for solutions by looking deeper into Keynes. Some are even looking outside of it, I've seen at least one crack open a copy of Kapital.  Regardless, I'm not surprised to see Bernanke express an interest in leaving… I'd probably want to leave too.