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Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke throws his hands up, admits we're in a financial shit storm
To prove just how serious he is, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke reaches for his gun.
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke shattered Washington, D.C.'s nice summer day by warning the Senate Banking Committee on Tuesday that the U.S. economy was pretty much in the toilet risks a further slowdown and higher inflation.
His words were carefully chosen—he didn't once utter the word "recession"—but it was clear to anyone watching his testimony that he was dying to say it, among other words. We heard him say "the economy has continued to expand" and consumer spending has "advanced at a modest pace" but what did he really mean? We've run his testimony speech through the old 23/6 tag cloud generator.
Here's a tag cloud of what Ben Bernanke really said:
And here's the tag cloud of what Ben Bernanke really meant:
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