Ben Bernanke actually said...

I have always said... you do not want to just do short-run stuff and ignore the long-run.

Bernanke emphasizes the need for a balanced approach to economic policy.

06/06/2012

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We have already seen the stresses we saw in September. In September, we saw AIG and Lehman and other financial firms under great pressure.

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I think that confidence in financial engineering has gone down quite a bit, and we need to be very careful.

I am very angry about the situation. I am sorry that there were these gaps in regulation and in the financial resolution regime.