{"id":308,"date":"2009-08-25T10:23:19","date_gmt":"2009-08-25T14:23:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=308"},"modified":"2009-08-25T10:23:19","modified_gmt":"2009-08-25T14:23:19","slug":"bernanke-gets-a-second-term-as-fed-chairman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/308\/bernanke-gets-a-second-term-as-fed-chairman\/","title":{"rendered":"Bernanke gets a second term as Fed Chairman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Interrupting his vacation on Martha&#8217;s Vineyard today, President Obama announced plans to appoint Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke to a second term.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2009\/08\/25\/AR2009082501115_pf.html\" target=\"_blank\">Here&#8217;s the story<\/a> from <em>The Washington Post<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>OAK BLUFFS, Mass., Aug. 25 &#8211;With Bernanke at his side in a schoolhouse-turned-briefing room on this vacation island, Obama said Bernanke has helped to steer the country through one of its worst financial crises.<\/p>\n<p>President Obama on Tuesday renominated Ben Bernanke for another term as chairman of the Federal Reserve, citing &#8220;his background, his temperament, his courage, and his creativity&#8221; as reasons he should continue in the nation&#8217;s most powerful economic policy making job.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the full <em>WaPo<\/em> story <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2009\/08\/25\/AR2009082501115_pf.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!--  Insert the sidebar information --><!-- Article Related Media --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interrupting his vacation on Martha&#8217;s Vineyard today, President Obama announced plans to appoint Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke to a second term.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s the story from The Washington Post: OAK BLUFFS, Mass., Aug. 25 &#8211;With Bernanke at his side in a schoolhouse-turned-briefing room on this vacation island, Obama said Bernanke has helped to steer the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":318,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308\/revisions\/318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}