Prosecutor Richard Goddard told the trial This was a sustained, frenzied attack on this man.

Behold me, the god of frenzied, inexhaustible love says, rising in bloody splendor, Behold me.

At the same time, Bernanke is inheriting a pair of economic vulnerabilities that are unusual by historical standards, and that did not precede the Great Depression of the 1930 s. We are now in the late stages of the biggest real estate boom in US (or world) history, driven by frenzied market psychology.