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Daily Show: Bush vs. Bernanke on the Economy
Daily Show: Bush vs. Bernanke on the Economy
  ..or Fantasy vs. Reality on the “Strength” of the Economy For my money, this is when “The Daily Show” is at it’s best. Last night, Jon juxtaposed President Bush’s rosy (and wholly unrealistic) appraisal of the economy with Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke’s much more sobering (and frightening) Congressional testimony, and noted that President Bush ...
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Bush vs. Bernanke on the Economy
J. Bradford DeLong's Grasping Reality with All Eight Tentacles — ... And comments: >Crooks and Liars » Daily Show: Bush vs. Bernanke on the Economy: For my money, this is when “The Daily Show” is at it’s best. Last night, Jon juxtaposed President Bush’s rosy (and wholly unrealistic) appraisal of the economy with Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke’s much more sobering (and frightening) Congressional testimony, and noted that President Bush “accidentally” scheduled his press conference for the same time as Bernanke’s testimony, certainly not knowing it would overshadow it. ...

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