{"id":222142,"date":"2010-01-24T11:00:57","date_gmt":"2010-01-24T16:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/bernanke-likely-reconfirmed-2010-1"},"modified":"2010-01-24T11:00:57","modified_gmt":"2010-01-24T16:00:57","slug":"the-us-pulls-bank-from-the-brink-of-being-a-banana-republic-bernanke-likely-reconfirmed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/222142","title":{"rendered":"The US Pulls Bank From The Brink Of Being A Banana Republic, Bernanke Likely Reconfirmed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Phew<\/em>. For a second there it seemed like a single election in Massachusetts the the potential to not only topple the direction of The White House and Congress, but take down the Federal Reserve (and possibly) its independence as well.<\/p>\n<p>For now, despite the shifting political winds and the stomach-churning three day drop in the market, it looks as though Ben Bernanke will pass the Senate with at least 60 votes.<\/p>\n<p>At InTrade, where Bernanke&#8217;s reconfirmation odds had fallen into the low 60s, his odds are back in the 90s, as the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/01\/24\/us\/politics\/24bernanke.html\">New York Times<\/a> reports that the voters are there.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.businessinsider.com\/image\/4b5c6e84000000000096ff8b\/bernanke.png\" border=\"0\" alt=\"bernanke\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/bernanke-likely-reconfirmed-2010-1#comments\">Join the conversation about this story &#187;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>See Also:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/plunge-bernanke-heads-into-weekend-with-a-65-re-appointment-chance-on-intrade-2010-1\">PLUNGE: Bernanke Heads Into Weekend With A 65% Re-Appointment Chance On InTrade<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/the-anti-bernanke-politicians-are-hypocrites-2010-1\">The Anti-Bernanke Politicians Are Hypocrites<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/show-geithner-and-bernanke-the-door-2010-1\">Show Geithner And Bernanke The Door<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheMoneyGame\/~4\/VrqpivEHHs8\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Phew. For a second there it seemed like a single election in Massachusetts the the potential to not only topple the direction of The White House and Congress, but take down the Federal Reserve (and possibly) its independence as well. For now, despite the shifting political winds and the stomach-churning three day drop in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-222142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222142\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}