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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices

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To: tejek who wrote (543364)1/12/2010 7:14:33 PM
From: SilentZ  Read Replies (1) of 1574674
 
>How so?

prospect.org

>"Not at the WSJ, nor it seems anywhere else. Yesterday, Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben Bernanke referred to the "our dual mandate, which is growth and inflation." In fact, the dual mandate is full employment (defined as 4.0 percent unemployment) and price stability. Presumably Bernanke had unemployment in mind when he said "growth," but it striking that he would not use the right term. The two are of course not synonymous."

>I think you are being just a wee harsh. We all have biases and POVs. In a disaster that's not really the major concern. The guy got us through one of the worst economic crisis since WW II. As with most humans, he ain't perfect. The truth is there is no such thing as Superman.

But he also helped put us in it! It was a signficant part of his job to see it coming, and he didn't.

-Z
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