Bernanke Takes His Message to the Masses


	Bernanke Takes His Message to the Masses

Brian Wingfield

3-15-2009 11:28 PM

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Check out the extremely rare TV interview given by Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke on 60 Minutes

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Aside from the president he's the most powerful man working to save the economy, but you have never seen an interview with Ben Bernanke. 
</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/03/12/60minutes/main4862191.shtml"><DIV>Bernanke is the chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, better known as the Fed. The words of any Fed chairman cause fortunes to rise and fall and so, by tradition, chairmen of the Fed do not do interviews - that is until now. 
</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/03/12/60minutes/main4862191.shtml"><DIV>The Federal Reserve controls the economy by setting interest rates. But after the crash of 2008, Bernanke invoked emergency powers, and with unprecedented aggressiveness has thrown a trillion dollars at the crisis. 
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