Ben Bernanke actually said...

We would be delighted if the Congress would pass a substantial resolution regime that would create a set of rules and expectations for how you deal with a firm of this type that is failing and leave the central bank out of it entirely.

Context

Bernanke advocates for Congress to establish clear rules for handling failing firms.

02/23/2009

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