Ben Bernanke Defends Federal Reserve Efforts on Economy
Says there's room to do even more.
Staff projected at the meeting that growth in 2013 might not be fast enough to bring down unemployment much further.
There won't be a recovery until credit card and household debt levels come down.
Eric Rosengren, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, wants such a program to continue until unemployment falls.
Manipulating numbers downward was way to ease loan terms
From a long-term perspective, the Federal Reserve is doing more harm than good right now to economic stability.
Once-a-month quotes from the Obama administration and the media about how the economy will be booming any minute now.
Sometimes leading indicators are deceiving.
A laundry soap has developed as much legitimacy as the dollar to serve as currency. What's going on?
The Federal Reserve prints so much money that since it opened its doors in 1914, the dollar has lost more than 90 percent of its value.
Ben Bernanke takes the U.S. further down the road to serfdom.
The Federal Reserve was supposed to be a lender of last resort, not an ATM for Wall Street.
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