(Burr-nank-ee, Burr-nank-ee-in)
adjective, verb, Bernanke, Bernankein’
1) Bookworming when decisive action is needed.
2) Not in touch with current realities.
3) An incompetent person, given an important task.
1.
You: I’ll go to the library and see if I can find a book on “how to put out a fire” then I’ll come back and try to put out the house fire.
Me: Yeah, go Bernanke it.
2.
You: And that’s the way it is.
Me: You be Bernanke.
2 and 3.
You: I’m on top of that situation.
Me: Don’t be Bernankein’.
3.
You: I’ll let him take charge of that.
Me: Don’t let Bernanke touch nothin’.
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1) The reciprocal of a google. 10^-100. The smallest named number.
2) a very small number.
The federal funds rate was lowered to a bernanke.
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An immaculately trimmed shield of tangled facts and misleading information designed to effectively disguise an unpopular truth.
We're going to have to comb Bernanke's beard to find out what really happened.
Only one part of the existing financial crisis. His, and many others', decisions have put this planet's monetary system in a world of shit.
Alan Grayson: Who got the money?
Ben Bernanke: Banks in Europe and other countries.
Alan Grayson: Which banks?
Ben Bernanke: I don't know.
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He's a magician, a furious magician. He wants your teeth for the federal reserve, because he's cutting interest rates in half, and he needs your teeth for his lonely hearts club band.
"I need your teeth for my lonely hearts club band. Ben Bernanke. I'm a magician!"
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The Chairman of the United States Federal Reserve. He holds the power to conduct monetary policy such as open market operations and adjusting the prime interest rates. His actions have been questionable since the inception of his term.
Ben Bernanke caused the Dow Jones to drop 350 points in one day simply be m aking a comment about the market.
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