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Financial crisis held lessons, Bernanke says

By Martin Crutsinger

 |  Associated Press  

  March 24, 2012

Chairman Ben Bernanke said the slow recovery from the Great Recession and 2008 financial crisis illustrates how vulnerable the global economy is, while urging economic policymakers to learn from that lesson. The Federal Reserve chairman noted the extraordinary steps taken by the Federal Reserve and other central banks around the world to stabilize financial systems, during a two-day conference Friday on the crisis

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