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Bernanke in Denial

Time's Man of the Year helped start 2010 with a roaring stock market rally. But his recent statements should strike fear: Nomi Prins on how the Fed boss failed to learn from 2009.

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Now Ben Bernanke wants better regulation?

The Fed chairman’s speech to the American Economic Association Sunday could be viewed several ways: Ironically, because he was involved in the monetary policies over much of the past decade that stoked the lending fires, yet failed to administer appropriate regulatory constraints over his domain....

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