Hey Bernanke: Just Apologize!

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SORRY is the easy way Out!!

Luis of CA 7:04PM February 04, 2010

If Bernanke, Greenspan, Paulson, Geithner and all these other regulators were in the military, they would have been court martialed.

Rick of CA 3:53PM January 28, 2010

or otherwise beat around the "perhaps errors were made" bush. But that does not make me like policies any better of interest rates artificially held too low too long---which, by the way, we are still doing. Some of us REALLY don't like our meager and conservative investments in bank CDs paying one or two percent, while the dang casino-trader stock market roars back too far, too fast---and directly causes us to forego the health care and financial market reforms we should have easily enacted in 2009 with bipartisan support. The FED pumping the markets with rates intentionally below inflation was a POLITICAL move against both those. Don't forget, Bernanke is a Republican at heart.

Yes, we had a tech bubble in 2000 and 9/11 in 2001. Yes, both of them were preventable. And, yes, our economy was not allowed to adjust to both of them with the national mood-swings to prudence that we should have had. We have an "independent" FED, you say? Yeah, sure.

Muser of NM 9:04PM January 26, 2010

Bernanke and Geithner should both resign and AIG board members should follow the Japanese style of a failed business by committing suicide. End of Story

John of DC 7:44PM January 26, 2010

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Rick Newman

Rick Newman

The global economy is mysterious, even scary. Chief Business Correspondent Rick Newman connects the dots. In addition to his writing for U.S. News, Rick is the co-author of two books: Firefight: Inside the Battle to Save the Pentagon on 9/11, and Bury Us Upside Down: The Misty Pilots and the Secret Battle for the Ho Chi Minh Trail.


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