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- Listen for potentially market-moving phrases from Bernanke in the Fed’s first ever press conference at 2:15 p.m.
- There have already been a number of important questions proposed — most significantly about recovery and how to balance the employment-price stability dual mandate — but there’s also a lot of financial sector regulation (and new rule-writing) going on at the central bank.
- Why should revenues be 18% of GDP? No particular reason.
- The debt limit is not a static target.
- The worst violence in Syria may well be yet to come; don’t read too much into western sanctions.
- Haley Barbour didn’t pass on a presidential run, he lost.
- Fox News allegedly wants Huckabee to make up his mind already.
- And just asking if someone was born abroad plants the seed of doubt.