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Paulson and Bernanke Watch: Confidence Game via Quotes

Your point is well taken; however, I'm a bit confused as to what would be preferable to the public dissembling chronicled above. You simply can't have the Fed Chairman and Treasury Secretary yelling, "Run for your lives!"; "Head for the hills!"; "Every man for himself!"; "She's going down!"; "Oh, the humanity!"; and "YEEEAAAAGGGHHHHHH!!!!... in public.