Bernanke’s Payoff: The Comments Section Tells the Real Story

03/05/2014 Mises Wire Jeff Deist

Bernanke is absolutely savaged in the comments to this CNBC video detailing his $250K speaking fee (now that he has joined the “private” sector). This is a family blog, so we won’t reprint any of them here. But the comments show how laughably out of touch with reality our political/banking class really is. NOBODY believes the official story anymore. Central bankers are seen as deeply harmful, if not criminal.

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