Hey Bernanke: Just Apologize!

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