[jeffc]

And brought to you mostly by people educated at “schools” like Harvard.....

[BfloGuy]

Rising interest rates may cause a financial market breakdown

Well, yes. After a period during which the Fed has kept interest rates artificially low -- spurring all sorts of investments that make no economic good sense -- raising those rates always results in a crash.

Bernanke knows that, too. He just thinks he's brilliant enough to make it a "soft landing".