One website retitled the following Robert Scheer article: "Bernanke Puts Bankers First & The Public Last." That's the problem with Bernanke and the Fed: boosting the banks at the expense of the American middle class is the overall raw reality of their policies. Unfortunately Bernanke is unelected and untouchable until 2014, since Obama reappointed him to a second term in 2009.

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