Ben Bernanke actually said...

Our mission as set forth by the Congress is a critical one: to preserve price stability; to foster maximum sustainable growth in output and ...

Right now our concern is that the Chinese currency policy is blocking what might be a more normal recovery process in the global economy, an...

It would be very concerning for financial markets and, I think, for the general public if the United States didn't pay its bills.

The political challenge is to figure out how to do that.