The article is too much work to post.

 

http://www.businessinsider.com/henry-blodget-the-feds-exit-plan-is-just-another-secret-gift-to-wall-street-2010-2

Heh yeah, this is the strange situation we're in. Even if you believe in the magic of Keynes, the numbers still don't add up.

 

I get the feeling that Bernanke probably didn't even want to be reconfirmed, but he had to in order to keep the markets from getting jittery.

 

You can't inflate one sector of the economy (housing prices) while keeping other sectors from also inflating - it's impossible because the economy is an ecosystem. Like with Gaia and sh!t. Fern Gully, Avatar, etc.