Before the House Financial Services Committee, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke will soon begin the central bank’s semi-annual Monetary Policy Report to Congress, otherwise known as the Humphrey Hawkins testimony, and you can watch it on CSPAN3.

I’ve got a pretty good hunch that, like his predecessor Alan Greenspan, history will not be kind to Ben Bernanke and elected officials may want to get out in front of that development by offering up some quips at today’s hearing – about all the money printing that central banks have been doing – so their thoughts can be recorded for posterity.