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Obama propondrá hoy a Bernanke para un segundo mandato en la Reserva Federal
25/08/2009 - 06:49
- Noticias EFE

Washington, 25 ago (EFE).- El presidente de EE.UU., Barack Obama, hará hoy un inciso en sus vacaciones en la isla de Martha's Vineyard (Massachusetts) para proponer a Ben Bernanke para un segundo mandato de cuatro años al frente de la Reserva Federal (Fed).

Bernanke, un republicano, fue elegido para capitanear la Fed por por el ex presidente George W. Bush y ha dirigido el banco central desde comienzos de 2006.

Como presidente de la Fed, Bernanke ha ayudado a la economía del país a navegar por la peor crisis desde la Gran Depresión de la década de los treinta.

El jefe de Gabinete de la Casa Blanca, Rahm Emanuel, afirmó la pasada noche que Obama reconoce el mérito de Bernanke al lograr impedir que el país entrara en otra depresión.

El actual mandato de Bernanke al frente de la Fed termina el 31 de enero de 2010 y su nombramiento para un segundo mandato requiere la confirmación del Senado.

Se prevé que Obama haga el anuncio a las 13.00 GMT y que aparezca acompañado de Bernanke.

Licenciado en Economía por la Universidad de Harvard y doctor en Económicas por el Instituto Tecnológico de Massachusetts (MIT), Bernanke, de 55 años, fue presidente del Consejo de Asesores Económicos de la Casa Blanca, miembro de la junta de gobernadores de la Fed y profesor de la Universidad de Princeton.

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enjoy your voting

Son siempre todos de las mismas putas universidades. Todos los coleguitas de Harvard, Princeton y demás chupando en el gobierno y en el banco central. Si no recuerdo mal, Obama es de Harvard tb. Si quereis ser parte de la élite ya sabeis donde teneis que ir a estudiar, aunque dudo mucho que sea tan fácil.

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Suerte que las hemerotecas están para poner a cada uno en su sitio: Esto es lo que decía el perla días antes de ser nombrado por Bush como sucesor de Greenspan:

Bernanke: There's No Housing Bubble to Go Bust - washingtonpost.com

Bernanke: There's No Housing Bubble to Go BustF
ed Nominee Has Said 'Cooling' Won't Hurt


Ben S. Bernanke does not think the national housing boom is a bubble that is about to burst, he indicated to Congress last week, just a few days before President Bush nominated him to become the next chairman of the Federal Reserve.

U.S. house prices have risen by nearly 25 percent over the past two years, noted Bernanke, currently chairman of the president's Council of Economic Advisers, in testimony to Congress's Joint Economic Committee. But these increases, he said, "largely reflect strong economic fundamentals," such as strong growth in jobs, incomes and the number of new households.

Bernanke's thinking on the housing market did not attract much attention before Bush tapped him for the Fed job Monday but will likely be among the key topics explored by members of the Senate Banking Committee during upcoming hearings on his nomination.

Many economists argue that house prices have risen too far too fast in many markets, forming a bubble that could rapidly collapse and trigger an economic downturn, as overinflated stock prices did at the turn of the century. Some analysts have warned that even a flattening of house prices might cause a slump -- posing the first serious challenge to whoever succeeds Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan after he steps down Jan. 31.

Bernanke's testimony suggests that he does not share such concerns, and that he believes the economy could weather a housing slowdown.

"House prices are unlikely to continue rising at current rates," said Bernanke, who served on the Fed board from 2002 until June. However, he added, "a moderate cooling in the housing market, should one occur, would not be inconsistent with the economy continuing to grow at or near its potential next year."

Greenspan has said recently that he sees no national bubble in home prices, but rather "froth" in some local markets. Prices may fall in some areas, he indicated. And he warned in a speech last month that some borrowers and lenders may suffer "significant losses" if cooling house prices make it difficult to repay new types of riskier home loans -- such as interest-only adjustable-rate mortgages.

Bernanke did not address the possibility of local housing bubbles or the risks faced by individual borrowers or lenders in a slowing market.

But if Bernanke is confirmed as Fed chief, and if the housing market slows more than he expects, he would be unlikely to use the central bank's power over short-term interest rates to prop up falling housing prices for the sake of individual homeowners, according to comments he has made in numerous speeches and statements in academic papers.


Rather, he has argued for many years that the Fed should respond to rising or falling prices for stocks, real estate or other assets only if they are affecting inflation or economic growth in an undesirable way. Thus, he would advocate cutting interest rates if a reversal in the housing market sharply dampened consumer spending, triggering job losses or a fall in inflation to very low levels.

Lower interest rates encourage consumers and businesses to borrow and spend, spurring economic growth and hiring. That would also make it less likely that very low inflation could turn into deflation, an economically harmful drop in the overall price level.

Bernanke believes "the Fed's job is to protect the economy, not to protect individual asset prices," said William Dudley, chief economist for Goldman Sachs U.S. Economics Research

Supongo que bien se merece la reelección despues de esto

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(*): ¿NUEVE TRILLONES AMERICANOS DE DÓLARES...?

Que no estan perdiiiiios

Estan invertidos a largo plazo

Lo que no se es a que espera para subir el tipo de interes

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aqui unas cuantas de las predicciones de Ben Shalom Bernanke entre 2005 y 2007.

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Estando de acuerdo en sus críticas a la FED y otros bancos Centrales, no deberíamos caer en el pecado opuesto. ¿Se imagina a los gobernadores y al propio Gobierno Federal manejando la maquinita del dinero? Otro Zimbabwe más en el horizonte.

Y es que tras las andanadas a la Fed se esconden los estatalistas de la ONU, de cuyo buen hacer hemos visto ya sobradas muestras.

Yo, desde luego, no me fío ni de unos ni de los otros.

Salvo de Ron Paul, claro.

Esperemos que no se deje utilizar por ellos.