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Ben Bernanke Should Be in Jail Alongside the Wall Street Execs He Just Accused

"Illegal acts ultimately are done by individuals, not by legal fictions," he added in an interview published by USA Today on Sunday. It's true that seven years later, not a single Wall Street bad actor has gone to prison over the credit crisis - even though it dwarfed the savings and loan scandals of the 1980s for which 1,100 people were prosecuted for white collar crimes, including top executives of the large failed banks. But the statement coming from Bernanke is loaded with hypocrisy. He played a major role in tanking the U.S. economy himself. Take a look... Tags: 2008 financial crisis , Ben Bernanke , Ben Bernanke book , Ben Bernanke interview , Ben Bernanke jail , ben s. bernanke , causes of economic crisis , causes of financial crisis , financial crisis 2008 , financial crisis in 2008 , financial crisis of 2008 , the federal reserve and the financial crisis , Wall Street criminals To get full access to all Money Morning content, click here About Money Morning: Money Morning gives you access to a team of ten market experts with more than 250 years of combined investing experience – for free . Our experts – who have appeared on FOXBusiness, CNBC, NPR, and BloombergTV – deliver daily investing tips and stock picks, provide analysis with actions to take, and answer your biggest market questions. Our goal is to help our millions of e-newsletter subscribers and Moneymorning.com visitors become smarter, more confident investors. Disclaimer: © 2015 Money Morning and Money Map Press. All Rights Reserved. Protected by copyright of the United States and international treaties. Any reproduction, copying, or redistribution (electronic or otherwise, including the world wide web), of content from this webpage, in whole or in part, is strictly prohibited without the express written permission of Money Morning. 16 W. Madison St. Baltimore, MD, 21201. The post Ben Bernanke Should Be in Jail Alongside the Wall Street Execs He Just Accused appeared first on Money Morning - We Make Investing Profitable .
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