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Ben Bernanke: “Some of the steps we have taken, like the AIG episode, for example, obviously have hurt the Fed a lot politically.”

On the recordDecember 2, 2009
Some of the steps we have taken, like the AIG episode, for example, obviously have hurt the Fed a lot politically.
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Ben Bernanke
Republican · South Carolina

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Bernanke acknowledges that certain actions have politically damaged the Federal Reserve.

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