{"id":237155,"date":"2010-01-27T13:47:10","date_gmt":"2010-01-27T18:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=74948"},"modified":"2010-01-27T13:47:10","modified_gmt":"2010-01-27T18:47:10","slug":"grassley-no-on-bernanke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/237155","title":{"rendered":"Grassley: No on Bernanke"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sen. Charles Grassley (Iowa), senior Republican on the Finance Committee, told reporters today that he will oppose Ben Bernanke’s bid for a second term atop the Federal Reserve, citing “concerns about inflation and the pattern of resistance to accountability.”<\/p>\n

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We need a chairman focused on a strong dollar and low inflation. The current chairman has been behind the scenes with a policy of easy money, inflating our way out of a stock market bubble to a housing bubble. Now we face the inevitable result, and it seems like we’re in a situation to repeat the mistakes of the past with the kind of hyperinflation we had in ‘79 and ‘80.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Bernanke’s first term expires at the end of January.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sen. Charles Grassley (Iowa), senior Republican on the Finance Committee, told reporters today that he will oppose Ben Bernanke’s bid for a second term atop the Federal Reserve, citing “concerns about inflation and the pattern of resistance to accountability.” We need a chairman focused on a strong dollar and low inflation. The current chairman has […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4315,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-237155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237155","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\/4315"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237155\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}