$$$ Edward Quince played an important but little understood role in crafting the government’s response to the deepening financial crisis in 2008. Who’s Edward Quince? It’s the online alter-ego former Federal Reserve chief Ben Bernanke used to trade a flurry of e-mails with colleagues as they raced to shore up the nation’s teetering banks. Six years after the crisis, the pseudonym only just emerged in a Washington courtroom on Wednesday during the trial over the government’s controversial bailout of AIG. [NYP]

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