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The Ben Bernanke media tour continues. The Federal Reserve chairman will sit down for a one-hour forum with Jim Lehrer of PBS later this month, taking questions from the NewsHour anchor, a studio audience and online participants. The Sunday, July 26 recording at the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City is being billed as “Bernanke On the Record.” The NewsHour says an audience of “local citizens” (in addition to Lehrer) will ask questions for a three-segment program to air on The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer the following Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. Local PBS stations also will get the full feed for a special program to air that Wednesday. That could amount to the largest TV audience Mr. Bernanke has reached since he began doing on-the-record media appearances this year, a way for the former college professor to explain the crisis and the central bank’s handling of it. (Of course, it also conveniently comes in the final year of Mr. Bernanke’s four-year term as Fed chairman, as he’s awaiting a reappointment decision from the White House.) Mr. Bernanke attended an on-the-record lunch at the National Press Club in February that was the closest we’ve seen to a press conference by a Fed chairman. The following month, he appeared on two segments of CBS’s 60 Minutes taped at the Fed headquarters in Washington and in his hometown of Dillon, S.C. — with Mr. Bernanke sitting on a bench on Main Street.

http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2009...ke-goes-to-pbs/

if you would like to ask ben a question, you can lodge it here:

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/insider/

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Very nice!

You can be sure I'm going to throw down with Benny B.

Can't wait to see it. Bernanke is one cool dude.

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Originally posted by Krypton Can't wait to see it. Bernanke is one cool dude.

You dont work at Goldman Sachs do you?

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Originally posted by saluyamo You dont work at Goldman Sachs do you?

I wish I did..average salary is $800k a year..

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Originally posted by Krypton I wish I did..average salary is $800k a year..

It might be because I've been lurking marketwatch to much but from what I've read GS is extremely corrupt and that they have a lot of friends in DC, such as Ben and others in high positions.

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Originally posted by saluyamo It might be because I've been lurking marketwatch to much but from what I've read GS is extremely corrupt and that they have a lot of friends in DC, such as Ben and others in high positions.

I don't know about any of that, but Goldman Sachs hires some of the smartest people out there in the field of economics. It's only natural that some of these people move on to high government positions.

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Originally posted by saluyamo It might be because I've been lurking marketwatch to much but from what I've read GS is extremely corrupt and that they have a lot of friends in DC, such as Ben and others in high positions.

*rolls eyes* grow up.

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Originally posted by Krypton I don't know about any of that, but Goldman Sachs hires some of the smartest people out there in the field of economics. It's only natural that some of these people move on to high government positions.

and it maybe that some of those people help out old mates. I could be wrong but didnt GS become a bank very very shortly before TARP money was handed out?
Just this month GS made amazing profits from what could only be high risk trading, something that I thought banks are not meant to do (legislation? a commity, I'm not sure)

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Originally posted by saluyamo and it maybe that some of those people help out old mates.

if this is your honest opinion you are severely misinformed.

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Originally posted by pkcRAISTLIN if this is your honest opinion you are severely misinformed.

Thats more than likely Could you recommend some forums and news websites that arent as misinformed?

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Originally posted by pkcRAISTLIN *rolls eyes* grow up.

*rolls eyes* Open your eyes. You must be plain retarded to think our world is a perfect fairy tale and corruption is just a ten-letter word. Did you not say yourself in the 'What are you currently reading' thread you'd rather get ripped and play video games? You're like the bible-thumping creationist having faith in the fairy tale you've been brought up in with little to no willingness to ask questions. Yup, lending institutions exist to make the world a better place for everyone and people with money and power never use it for anything that couldn't be considered altruistic. Read a fucking book, god DAMNIT.