Ben Bernanke actually said...

not raising the ceiling could hurt the credit rating of the U.S. and damage financial markets.

Ben Bernanke warns Republicans about the consequences of not raising the debt ceiling.

06/13/2011

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I do not agree with the view that this is likely to lead to another crisis.

I can say that, yes.

I think that supervisors will be paying more attention to this in the future and we should pay more attention to it.

It would be a good thing if that came back.