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2008 Financial Crisis
This zine contains articles pertaining to the collapse of several major financial institutions in 2008.
Do you think the House of Representatives's initial rejection of Bush's $700 billion bailout plan is good or bad for the economy?
24 votes so far
Leader:
Bad. It just makes a bad situation worse.
Bad. It just makes a bad situation worse.
Are gas prices under $2/gallon good or bad for the country in the long term?
4 votes so far
Leader:
Good. It keeps money in the pockets of the people.
Good. It keeps money in the pockets of the people.
Just six weeks after he told Reuters it was essentially a done deal, Senate Banking Committee Chairman Christopher Dodd punted when asked about the likelihood of Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke's confirmation for a second term.
Asked by a citizen journalist if it was a foregone conclusion that Bernanke's nomination for a second term would be confirmed by the Senate, Dodd replied: "Not necessarily, not necessarily. We'll see how members...
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Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-Oregon) has a few choice words for Goldman Sachs and suggests the nation might be better off with two more job losses - Larry Summers and Tim Geithner.With all the criticism of the Federal Reserve lately, if Ben Bernanke happened to hear DeFazio talk, he would probably have been quite pleased not to hear his name mentioned.
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From blogger.com
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U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said the economic recovery was on solid enough ground to continue through 2010 with modest gains in employment.
Speaking in New York City at The Economic Club Monday, Bernanke said, "my own view is that the recent pickup reflects more than purely temporary factors and that continued growth next year is likely."
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From hispanicbusiness.com
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Filed under: Federal Reserve, Financial CrisisU.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke did something Monday that Fed chairs rarely do: he commented on the dollar. Comments about the dollar are almost exclusively left to the U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, but on Monday Bernanke, in a speech before the Economic Club of New York, said the large movement of capital precipitated by the financial crisis "resulted in a marked increase in the...
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From bloggingstocks.com
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WASHINGTON -- Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke on Monday said the central bank will keep a close eye on the sliding U.S. dollar even as he pledged anew to keep interest rates at record-lows to nurture the economic recovery. In...
From blog.silive.com
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- Bernanke: Fed will keep eye on sliding dollar (sfgate.com)
- Bernanke says Fed will keep eye on sliding dollar (syndication.boston.com)
- Business Highlights (thenewstribune.com)
The Federal Reserve, far from ever being a hero, deserves the scrutiny it is getting today. The truth is, Chairman Ben Bernanke saw neither the housing crash nor the banking crisis coming. If the Fed had fulfilled its role as a regulator, it would ...
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From search.live.com
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With financial regulatory reform bills being debated in Congress, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke gave an update on the steps the Fed is taking to improve the U.S. economic outlook. Senate Banking Cmte. Chair Chris Dodd (D-CT) is backing a proposal to strip the Fed of much of its supervisory power over financial institutions. Length: 51 min.Published: Today at 12:15pm (ET)
From c-span.org
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- Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke at Economic Club of NY (blogger.com)






