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Ben Bernanke: “We never take anything off the table because we don't know where the economy is going to go.”

On the recordOctober 3, 2011
We never take anything off the table because we don't know where the economy is going to go.
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Ben Bernanke
Republican · South Carolina

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Bernanke discusses the unpredictability of economic forecasts.

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