If You Can't Beat Them, Hire Them

Emblematic of the state of the financial world, former Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke is taking an advisoryrole with Citadel, the $25 billion hedge fund based in Chicago. Making less of a splash but certainly worth pointingout, Bernanke follows the footsteps of Jeremy Stein, who recently departed his post as a voting member of theFederal Open Market Committee prior to joining BlueMountain Capital Management as a consultant.