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From: LindyBill2/9/2011 5:55:55 PM
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Paul Ryan Slams Bernanke After Feds Purchase $1.7 Trillion in US Debt
from Gateway Pundit by Jim Hoft

Paul Ryan slammed Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke today for purchasing over $1.7 Trillion in US debt over the past 2 years.
"There is nothing more insidious that a country can do to its citizens than debase its currency."
The Daily Caller reported:

House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan challenged Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke's policy of so-called quantitative easing – the printing of new U.S. dollars to buy government debt – and raised concerns that a weakened dollar and inflation could cause the loss of the currency's global reserve status.

"There is nothing more insidious that a country can do to its citizens than debase its currency," Ryan told Bernanke. "Chairman Bernanke: We know you know this. We know that you're focused and concerned about this. The Fed's exit strategy and future policy – it will determine how this ends."

Ryan said he believed a "course correction here in Washington is sorely needed."

"Endless borrowing is not a strategy," he said. "My concern is that the costs of the Fed's current monetary policy – the money creation and massive balance sheet expansion – will come to outweigh the perceived short-term benefits."

"It is hard to overstate the consequences of getting this wrong. The dollar is the world's reserve currency and this has given us tremendous benefits in the global economy," Ryan said.

Bernanke, in his opening statement, defended the purchase over the last two years of almost $1.7 trillion in U.S. debt as having kept interest rates low and as having injected liquidity into the markets and the economy to sustain bank lending and consumer spending.
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