Ben Bernanke actually said...

If we hadn't had the TARP money in October, we would have had a global banking crisis.

Bernanke emphasizes the importance of TARP in preventing a banking crisis.

02/23/2009

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I think they view this whole situation... as being a political issue and not an economic issue.

We need to do something big, strong.

The Federal Reserve together with other agencies has imposed an order on the servicers to fix up their act and to go back and look at every ...

I think it is really a political issue as much as an economic issue.