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Article: Bernanke's money maneuvers: Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke's radical policies have prompted alarm that they might worsen our economic recession/depression.(ECONOMY)
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- The New American
- Article date:
- January 5, 2009
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For a man who once worked at South of the Border, the kitschy South Carolina tourist trap on I-95, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke has come a very long way. From his hometown in Dillon, South Carolina, where young Bernanke turned heads with his academic achievements (he was a spelling champion who competed in the National Spelling Bee, and achieved a near-perfect score on his college entrance exams), the man who was to become the 14th chairman of the Federal Reserve received a Ph.D. in economics from MIT and eventually became the head of the economics department at Princeton University. Along the way, Bernanke, an admirer of the late ...