If Bernanke doesn't get reconfirmed, then who would you like to see as Fed chairman?

[SlipperySlope]

I've been reading more and more that Bernanke might not get reconfirmed. But I don't know who would even be candidates for this job if it isn't him.

Anyone have any idea who would be on Obama's short list?

[lamp_shade]

1. Kucinich?

:sarcasm:

[jaxx]

2. LMAO

:rofl:

[Davis_X_Machina]

9. I think he meant "Cindy Sheehan".... n/t

[Canuckistanian]

18. No, no. Mike Malloy

He's a centrist, isn't he?

:rofl:

[pscot]

3. Elliot Spitzer

The banksters' worst nightmare.

[DireStrike]

5. My thoughts exactly

See also Ron Paul, and while we're dreaming, Andrew Jackson.

[TornadoTN]

26. You know, Ron Paul really is an interesting name you throw out there

I know he's completely against the Fed and wants to go to the GOLD STANDARD!, but he does seem to have a knack for knocking down the bankers and the insane monetary policy that permeates Washington.

If you could be sure he wouldn't destroy the Fed entirely, hastening the collapse of the entire economy, he might be a choice worth at least considering.

[DireStrike]

30. I think there is so much dead wood you can take an axe and just start chopping left and right

The economy would not be too much worse for the wear, I think, as a result of a brusque de-balling of the fed. It would do some damage, sure, but it'd help in the long term.

[Thickasabrick]

8. That would be so awesome. nt

[Toucano]

4. Brooksley Born. n-t

[glitch]

21. +all in. nt

[Earth_First]

6. Someone with a helicopter license... n/t

[robinlynne]

7. Paul Krugman. but Spitzer is a perfect call!

[applegrove]

14. I want both of them. Is that an option?

[robinlynne]

28. of course in our new progressive world!

[branders seine]

10. Michael Moore

[AndyHammond1970]

11. Either William Black or Dean Baker would be good choices.

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[TheWebHead]

12. he's going to get reconfirmed

there's some political huffing and puffing going on right now, but some of the laughable alternatives being presented offer some compelling reasoning why one of the 3 guys in government who kept a digital run on the banking system from collapsing our economy will stay on, regardless about what some lunchbucket populists lobbing spitballs from the sidelines and the professors with no skin in the game who do likewise believe.

[girl gone mad]

20. Kept our economy from collapsing?

:rofl:

As if he had no culability in creation of the credit/solvency crisis.

Mr. "Subprime is contained", no threat of a recession, keep that spigot open, drop money from helicopters. Lunchbucket populists, my ass. Anyone with a few working brain cells and a modicum of financial intelligence knows that re-appointing Bernanke would make him another in the long lime people who have "failed upward" into the Obama administration.

[sallyseven]

13. Elizabeth Warren I think her first name is

Elizabeth. Smartest person that I have heard. Spitzer is good too.

[Thickasabrick]

15. I've thought about this all day - I want it to be Krugman - he says not

to worry about the deficit and now we have this "surge" issue, he seems like the guy who would be able to tackle it.

[Canuckistanian]

16. Paul Volcker?

It's one name I've heard being floated

[JVS]

17. Sam Webb.

[Sebastian Doyle]

19. Nobody

I would like to see this private banking cartel eliminated completely.

[eridani]

22. Brooksley Born

Right about everything from the start.

[Kansas Wyatt]

23. That one gal who is always saying what is wrong in documentaries...

I don't know here name, but I've seen here testifying in congress and I think she was in a Michael Moore film too.

[Toucano]

27. You're thinking of Elizabeth Warren

And she's a great choice in my opinion.

[Kansas Wyatt]

29. Yes, that's her. n/t

[Vidar]

24. Volker.

[TornadoTN]

25. Volker most likely, but Spitzer would be a great one

I like them both, but if Spitzer stood a chance, he would really be an outstanding choice.