Bernanke will not let you lower your prices

Tags: Interventionism, The Fed

04/02/2008 Mises Wire Jeffrey A. Tucker

Marketwatch quotes Bernanke on a new benchmark: “We will not let prices fall at 10% a year.” Good thing he hasn’t been running the computer industry for the last 15 years.

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