By Tom Curry
National affairs writer
MSNBC
updated 6:22 p.m. ET, Mon., March. 17, 2008
WASHINGTON – Step aside Clinton, Obama, and McCain. Make way for Bernanke, Paulson, and Geithner.
In an election year in which the public and the news media have been focused on the presidential contenders, the crisis playing out in the financial markets is a reminder that for the time being, the most consequential decision-makers are unelected officials.
Supplying a note of dissenting populism was famed investor Jimmy Rogers who put it bluntly in an interview with Bloomberg News Monday, calling it “outrageous that the Federal Reserve is just throwing the dollar out of the window…. They are driving the dollar down. They are printing money as fast as they can.”
He added, acerbically, “This man Bernanke was never elected by anybody. I don’t know where he gets the audacity to spend $230 billion of our money to bail out a few friends on Wall Street. This is totally outrageous…. Who gave him the authority to do that, to destroy the dollar ….? And nobody ever voted for the man.”
Also, don’t forget there are 9 Men and Women continually making key decisions regarding our Constitution and those people were not elected either. Must be a conspiracy.
Also, don’t forget there are 9 Men and Women continually making key decisions regarding our Constitution and those people were not elected either. Must be a conspiracy.
Also, don’t forget there are 9 Men and Women continually making key decisions regarding our Constitution and those people were not elected either. Must be a conspiracy.
Also, don’t forget there are 9 Men and Women continually making key decisions regarding our Constitution and those people were not elected either. Must be a conspiracy.
Also, don’t forget there are 9 Men and Women continually making key decisions regarding our Constitution and those people were not elected either. Must be a conspiracy.
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