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The Motley Fool August 8, 2007 Seth Jayson	Mr. Market: Manic or Moron? Investors, make sure potential rewards adequately compensate you for your risks.
BusinessWeek July 18, 2005 Cooper & Madigan	U.S.: The Fed Needs To Do A Little More Fiddling With the housing sector unlikely to ease up anytime soon, the factory sector may have to bear a larger-than-usual burden for the Federal Reserve to achieve its goal of a well-balanced economy and price stability.
The Motley Fool September 20, 2007 Seth Jayson	Bear and the Housing Carcass Investors, do you think Ben Bernanke's half-point rate cut can save housing, like the folks at the National Association of Realtors claim? Then take just the briefest peak at the earnings release from Bear Stearns.
BusinessWeek August 20, 2007 Peter Coy	The Bernanke Agenda The Fed chairman feels the pain of subprime borrowers and the Street, but he's got his priorities.
The Motley Fool April 11, 2008 Chuck Saletta	The Next Unsustainable Asset Bubble As long as the first response to any financial stress is a quick infusion of cheap money, the formation of the next bubble is a virtual certainty.
The Motley Fool January 28, 2008 Matt Koppenheffer	Bumbling Bernanke? I Don't Think So A lot of people seem to think Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke has no idea what he's doing. Does he or not?
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The Motley Fool October 22, 2007 Seth Jayson	The Fed Didn't Say That The AP needs to take a mulligan on this pronouncement. Unfortunately, the Fed's lever is broken. It can't really fix the home problem, because it didn't provide that credit in the first place.
U.S. Banker January 2011 Scott Anderson	Short-Term Gain, Long-Term Pain The Fed s plan to buy $600 billion of Treasury bonds might boost demand for loans, but this latest round of quantitative easing could hamper bank profitability and continue to restrain the economic recovery.
The Motley Fool June 11, 2008 Kristin Graham	Can Bernanke Talk the Talk and Walk the Walk? Ben Bernanke is getting down to business to combat inflation.
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BusinessWeek November 5, 2007 Peter Coy	The Housing Bust's Latest Blow New research shows the recent jump in the rate of homeownership was tied largely to loose lending.
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The Motley Fool October 30, 2008 David Lee Smith	Everyone's Jumping Into the Bailout Line What started off as aid to the banks now appears to be accepting all comers.
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