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Bernanke to Congress: We're Much Closer to Total Destruction Than You Think
CNBC ^ | 9 Feb 2011 | John Carney

Posted on 02/13/2011 3:36:50 PM PST by Leisler

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To: Bloody Sam Roberts
How about....I'm getting sick of range time.

"Reactive targets" will turn that frown upside-down.

61 posted on 02/13/2011 6:39:12 PM PST by Charles Martel (Endeavor to persevere...)
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To: ROLF of the HILL COUNTRY
The Republican Fordney/McCumber Tariff of 1922, raising prices 30-40 percentand the vastly Republican Smoot/Hawley Tariff, putting the nail in the coffin in 1933.
62 posted on 02/13/2011 6:51:37 PM PST by Leisler (Our debts are someone's profit. Follow the money, the vig.....)
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To: Leisler

Bernake succeeded in added trillions of dollars of debt to our bottom line as he doubled up on the exponential curve of national debt for the last time to make sure the bankers didn’t have to suffer any consequences for their fraud. TARP,QE I, QE II, rumours of QE III and IV, and on and on. The guy has never made a right call during his time as FED chairman. He is desperately trying to preserve the broken fiat currency system and fractional banking system and the derivatives market that is 60 times larger than the world GDP. But he can’t do it, because these morons have let the run away betting go exponential. Massive hair cuts are the only true solution. He knows it and talks out of both sides of his mouth while he finishes us off to make sure the elite financial class is shored up for the big reset.

They should all be in jail, not partying like their is no tomorrow.


63 posted on 02/13/2011 7:07:09 PM PST by Gen-X-Dad
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To: Soul of the South

I’m 49 and older. I also am armed and figure I only got a few more years anyway, so let them bring it on.


64 posted on 02/13/2011 7:07:47 PM PST by packrat35 (America is rapidly becoming a police state that East Germany could be proud of!)
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To: Soul of the South

11 % of the housing in the US is unoccupied I hear. The resulting cleansing of the gene pool if the government does collapse will push that number higher.


65 posted on 02/13/2011 7:13:01 PM PST by listenhillary (20 years in Reverend Wright's church is all I need to determine the "content of his character")
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To: Leisler

So why is it that Bernanke is just now sounding the alarm right after the Pubs took the House? Trying to make them the fall guys?

Besides, Bernanke’s a total total hypocrite. Bernanke could stop federal deficit spending in a second if he wanted to simply having the Fed refuse to bid at Treasury auctions and raising interest rates to member banks.

It’s Bernanke’s policies that allow the giant U.S. deficit to occur.


66 posted on 02/13/2011 7:23:26 PM PST by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Made from the right stuff!)
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To: catnipman

He’s a true believer and that’s that.


67 posted on 02/13/2011 7:34:17 PM PST by Leisler (Our debts are someone's profit. Follow the money, the vig.....)
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To: Leisler

I promise not to mess with her. Looks like she’d have me for lunch with room left for desert. :)


68 posted on 02/13/2011 9:41:42 PM PST by ModelBreaker
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To: Leisler
Bernanke called upon lawmakers to confront the long term fiscal challenges sooner rather than later. If lawmakers don't confront them, they'll find themselves confronted by them.

Since the politicians are not prone to commit suicide by bending over the taxPAYERS yet again, it sounds like Bernanke is begging the politicians to take a chainsaw to the Democrats' socialist welfare state. That can't please Ubama and the rats.

69 posted on 02/13/2011 9:51:05 PM PST by Lancey Howard
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To: Outlaw Woman

Why do you think the leaders in failing countries hop on planes and head for parts unknown? So they won’t end up hunted down and _______________.


70 posted on 02/14/2011 9:33:57 AM PST by FrogMom (No such thing as an honest democrat!)
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To: FrogMom

Good Point


71 posted on 02/14/2011 9:46:00 AM PST by Outlaw Woman
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To: listenhillary

Unfortunately a significant amount of the excess housing is concentrated in a few geographic areas such as Florida where high rise condominium towers sit empty.


72 posted on 02/14/2011 1:23:21 PM PST by Soul of the South (When times are tough the tough get going.)
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To: Soul of the South

Supposedly Vegas, too. Heard recently of a 600K condo on the strip going for 100K.


73 posted on 02/14/2011 2:33:03 PM PST by FrogMom (No such thing as an honest democrat!)
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