Bernanke shows his backbone — to cheers as well as howls
Financial markets were shown once again to have misread events this week, as assets of all kinds tumbled when Ben Bernanke, chairman of the Federal Reserve, declined to back down from his previously stated policy that US quantitative easing would begin to taper down when economic figures warranted it.
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