Whether or not Ben Bernanke gets the nod to continue as Fed Chairman is completely inconsequential. He is just a stooge, a high-priced pawn, just like Obama and his supervisors Paul Volker and Tim Geithner. The real powers are the men behind the scenes; people whose names you might never have heard, with faces you would never recognize. To get a feel for the reality that actually exists, brush the dust off of your copy of Godfather III.
“Finance is the gun. Politics is knowing when to pull the trigger.” “Politics and crime; it’s all the same.”
This film may well be the epitome of art imitating life, and far less gruesome than “The Hangover”.