{"id":212474,"date":"2010-01-22T07:38:45","date_gmt":"2010-01-22T12:38:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thehollywoodliberal.com\/2010\/01\/22\/hightower-bernanke-wants-even-more-god-like-powers-for-the-federal-reserve\/"},"modified":"2010-01-22T07:38:45","modified_gmt":"2010-01-22T12:38:45","slug":"hightower-bernanke-wants-even-more-god-like-powers-for-the-federal-reserve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/212474","title":{"rendered":"Hightower: Bernanke Wants Even More God-Like Powers for the Federal Reserve"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a  rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedblitz.com\/~\/5485458\/10s4rf\/alternet~Hightower-Bernanke-Wants-Even-More-GodLike-Powers-for-the-Federal-Reserve\" >Hightower: Bernanke Wants Even More God-Like Powers for the Federal Reserve                     <\/a><br \/>Our financial rulers were so intoxicated with the fumes of their own omnipotence that they failed abjectly as regulators, as public servants 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