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The job of Bernanke, Geithner, and Obama is to keep the rentier-financiers' imperial plunder regime in power. Ironically, whether or not Bernanke actually made those promises to Reid is irrelevant. Bernanke should never have put himself in the position to be accused. However, the key poi...


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Yes, much of Wall Street wants to see Mr. Bernanke confirmed. The Street is currently making a bundle off Fed policy, as it borrows at near-zero rates and lends long, and the banks don't want that to end. The banks also loved negative real interest rates in the middle of the last decade, and we kn...


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]]> http://theexxchange.com/Ben_Bernanke/post:wall-street-journal-questions-bernanke-s-credibility-and-political-will/ 25 Jan 2010 20:47:42 PST Opinion: Senator Merkley Makes The Case Against Bernanke http://theexxchange.com/Ben_Bernanke/opinion:senator-merkley-makes-the-case-against-bernanke/ Written by Turkana
Last month, Senator Jeff Merkley (D-OR) was the sole Democrat on the Banking Committee to vote against reconfirming Ben Bernanke as Chairman of the Federal Reserve. The good news is that more Democrats have come out to oppose Bernanke. The bad news is that more Democrats have come out in sup...


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]]> http://theexxchange.com/Ben_Bernanke/opinion:senator-merkley-makes-the-case-against-bernanke/ 25 Jan 2010 15:16:08 PST Time for a Change at the Fed -- By: Larry Kudlow http://theexxchange.com/Ben_Bernanke/news:time-for-a-change-at-the-fed-by-larry-kudlow/ Written by webmaster@nationalreview.com (Larry Kudlow)
Sen. John McCain intends to vote “no” on the Bernanke nomination, saying “I believe that he must be held accountable for many of the decisions that contributed to our financial meltdown.” McCain is dead right. The Fed missed the boat in terms of monetary and regulatory policy. It is time for a c...


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]]> http://theexxchange.com/Ben_Bernanke/news:time-for-a-change-at-the-fed-by-larry-kudlow/ 25 Jan 2010 11:30:40 PST Economist Steve Keen On "The Case Against Bernanke" http://theexxchange.com/Ben_Bernanke/post:economist-steve-keen-on-the-case-against-bernanke/ Written by Michael Shedlock(noreply@blogger.com)
Fisher then argued that a starting position of over-indebtedness and low inflation in the 1920s led to a chain reaction that caused the Great Depression. So what did Ben Bernanke, the alleged modern expert on the Great Depression, make of Fisher’s argument? In a nutshell, he barely even c...


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]]> http://theexxchange.com/Ben_Bernanke/post:economist-steve-keen-on-the-case-against-bernanke/ 25 Jan 2010 01:20:06 PST Ben Bernanke news and blogs - February 26, 2010 http://theexxchange.com/Ben_Bernanke/?date=20100226 Below is today's roundup of news and blogs that haven't yet hit top story status by our community. Visit Ben Bernanke news and blogs for even more news and blogs converage.

  •   Tax-Tax-Tax, Spend-Spend-Spend -- By: Larry Kudlow -- by webmaster@nationalreview.com (Larry Kudlow) from Kudlow's Money Politic$ on National Review Online
  •   Secret Deals Involving No One; AIG Coverup Conspiracy Unravels -- by Michael Shedlock(noreply@blogger.com) from Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis
  •   Bernanke's Back -- by Brian Doherty from Hit & Run
  •   Thoughts on Geithner, AIG, the Fed, and Tax Cuts -- By: Larry Kudlow -- by webmaster@nationalreview.com (Larry Kudlow) from Kudlow's Money Politic$ on National Review Online
  •   This and That -- by paradox from The Left Coaster
  •   On the Road to Economic Damascus? -- By: Larry Kudlow -- by webmaster@nationalreview.com (Larry Kudlow) from Kudlow's Money Politic$ on National Review Online
  •   Democracy At Work -- by Michael Shedlock(noreply@blogger.com) from Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis
  •   Questions Geithner Cannot Escape -- by Michael Shedlock(noreply@blogger.com) from Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis
  •   US existing home sales fall 16.7% in Dec -- by natalie_denne@westpac.co.nz (Westpac Institutional Bank) from Friend of Boxxet
  •   Looks Bad for Ben -- by paradox from The Left Coaster

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Will Federal Reserve vice chairman Donald Kohn replace Ben Bernanke? It’s certainly possible, because Bernanke currently has four Senate holds on his nomination. In other words, there may not be a vote by January 31 when his term as chairman expires.


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Please consider Taylor Disputes Bernanke on Bubble, Says Low Rates Played Role. John Taylor, creator of the so-called Taylor rule for guiding monetary policy, disputed Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke’s argument that low interest rates didn’t cause the U.S. housing bubble.


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]]> http://theexxchange.com/Ben_Bernanke/post:taylor-ny-times-dean-baker-call-out-bernanke/ 06 Jan 2010 01:23:13 PST Sunday Roundup - Huffington Post http://theexxchange.com/Ben_Bernanke/news:sunday-roundup-huffington-post/ Sunday Roundup blog) This week, Time named Fed chair Ben Bernanke its Person of the Year. The magazine says its choice is "not an award," but rather a recognition of the person ... Ben Bernanke: TIME Magazine's Person of the Year for 2009Examiner.com all 2 news articles »


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For most of this decade, the Fed has been fighting unemployment by pumping in easy money. And it keeps telling us this will not cause inflation. With the CPI hitting nearly 5 percent in 2006 and almost 6 percent in 2008, Bernanke was dead wrong. And the fact remains that more money creation from...


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Via Andy Levy's Twitter feed and Polijam comes this clip of Rep. Ron Paul talking in Morning Joe about Fed head Helicopter Ben Bernanke being named as Man of The Year. “The big question is: has he used that power for good or for evil? And of course my side of the argument is the system is evil and th...


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In response, Bernanke repeated the lesson of The Great Contraction: “Milton Friedman’s view was that the cause of the Great Depression was the failure of the Federal Reserve to avoid excessively tight monetary policy in the early ’30s. That was Friedman and Schwartz’s famous book. With t...


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]]> http://theexxchange.com/Ben_Bernanke/news:bernanke-s-philosopher/ 17 Nov 2009 04:00:00 PST Bernanke: Bankruptcy OK If You're Regular Rich, But Not If You're, Like, Super-Duper Rich http://theexxchange.com/Ben_Bernanke/post:bernanke-bankruptcy-ok-if-you-re-regular-rich-but-not-if-you-re-like-super-duper-rich/ Federal Reserve Bank Chairman Ben Bernanke spoke to the Economic Club of NY this morning. In the speech and the followup questions, Bernanke staked more of his credibility on the green shoots recovery that is rocking the USA; offered some fun unemployment breakdowns; and reiterated th...


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In April in Let the Criminal Indictments Begin: Paulson, Bernanke, Lewis I made the case that BAC chairman Lewis was guilty of fraud and Paulson was guilty of coercion in regards to the shotgun wedding between Bank of America and Merrill Lynch. Bank of America / Merrill Lynch Recap


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]]> http://theexxchange.com/Ben_Bernanke/post:bernanke-guilty-of-coercion-and-market-manipulation/ 20 Oct 2009 07:42:11 PDT Opinion: Bernanke's Crisis Handling Means Summers Doesn't Get To Be Fed Chief http://theexxchange.com/Ben_Bernanke/opinion:bernanke-s-crisis-handling-means-summers-doesn-t-get-to-be-fed-chief/ New York Magazine  NY Summers vs. Bernanke? I'd Take Summers [Larry Kudlow] National Review Online Blogs Obama's Economic Circle Keeps Tensions High New York Times Tim Geithner and Larry Summers Are Still Best Friends New York Magazine


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]]> http://theexxchange.com/Ben_Bernanke/opinion:ben-bernanke-struggling-to-be-heard/ 06 Jun 2009 21:01:59 PDT Podcast: Fed Chair wants another stimulus plan http://theexxchange.com/Ben_Bernanke/podcast:fed-chair-wants-another-stimulus-plan/ Federal Reserve Bank Chairman Ben Bernanke testified Monday before a House panel throwing his support behind a plan to limit the risk of a "protracted slowdown" in the economy.  Chairman Bernanke is not endorsing any particular bill or dollar amount but is encouraging action by Congres...


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]]> http://theexxchange.com/Ben_Bernanke/podcast:fed-chair-wants-another-stimulus-plan/ 20 Oct 2008 09:18:00 PDT Opinion: John Bellamy Foster, "Bernanke and 'The Great Moderation' Four Years Later" http://theexxchange.com/Ben_Bernanke/opinion:john-bellamy-foster-bernanke-and-the-great-moderation-four-years-later/ Bernanke, who was to be appointed head of Bush's Council of Economic Advisers in 2005 and then chairman of the Federal Reserve Board in 2006, continually questioned the existence of a housing bubble, and argued that the "fundamentals" of the economy were sound (see John Bellamy Foster a...


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]]> http://theexxchange.com/Ben_Bernanke/opinion:john-bellamy-foster-bernanke-and-the-great-moderation-four-years-later/ 03 Oct 2008 16:30:00 PDT Opinion: Personal responsibility a good investment http://theexxchange.com/Ben_Bernanke/opinion:personal-responsibility-a-good-investment/ The other bookend on the Bush years is this meltdown of epic proportions. We are bailing out the institutions that operated what Warren Buffett once called the financial weapons of mass destruction. Only this time, the mushroom cloud ? the threat of an economic catastrophe ? may be real.


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]]> http://theexxchange.com/Ben_Bernanke/opinion:personal-responsibility-a-good-investment/ 29 Sep 2008 21:48:43 PDT Opinion: My Interview with Congressman Ron Paul http://theexxchange.com/Ben_Bernanke/opinion:my-interview-with-congressman-ron-paul/ What follows below is an unofficial transcript of my interview on Kudlow & Company last night with former Republican presidential candidate, Rep. Ron Paul of Texas. We talked about inflation, bailouts, the Fed’s role, Fannie & Freddie, and much more. Last night’s K&C market...


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]]> http://theexxchange.com/Ben_Bernanke/opinion:my-interview-with-congressman-ron-paul/ 17 Jul 2008 09:47:04 PDT Podcast: Bernanke: Economy not losing its steam http://theexxchange.com/Ben_Bernanke/podcast:bernanke-economy-not-losing-its-steam/ Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke doesn't believe the country will slip into a recession, rejecting the notion that the economy's expansion could be in danger of fizzling out.{b} Dow Jones falls nearly 100 points


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WASHINGTON - Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke and his colleagues are expected to strike a reassuring tone about the country's economic health today despite persistent worries that problems with risky mortgages could spread.


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