Ben Bernanke: Fed Did Right Thing in Financial Crisis of 2008

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Ben Bernanke, Federal Reserve System: The day that we allow short run political pressures to make us do something which is not the right thing for our economy, then our independence is effectively gone.
On January 16, the Hutchins Center on Fiscal and Monetary Policy at Brookings hosted its inaugural event on the lessons learned after the Great Recession and the challenges ahead for central banking.

[@calc2323]

My wages might be stagnant, prospects narrowing, public services shrinking but thank sweet sweet God, that the banks are okay.

[@syujengchyang]

The letting story out is great... the right thing to do in 2008...

[@sha370z]

they still printing about 95 billion each mo and has rates at 0
and its 2014 . 9 trillion missing form the fed 2008/2009
jul 21 2011 show over 16 trillion when out

[@syujengchyang]

I guess there will always be a Senator Ron Paul screaming "End The Fed".

[@flavius3896]

Lip-flappin Do-Nothing Sen. Rand Paul.

[@parkerbohnn]

The right thing was to imprison Bernanke for life after the fact. The entire world economies are in total collapse thanks to zero interest rates policies. Where did Bernanke get the brilliant idea from? Japan and got the exact same result as Japan.