Senate backs Bernanke for second term
Ben Bernanke will serve another four years at the helm of the Federal Reserve.
Senators on Thursday voted 70 to 30 in favour of Bernanke, nine days after his confirmation was thrown into doubt following the Democrats' loss of Edward Kennedy's Massachusetts Senate seat.
Though widely credited with helping stave off a second Great Depression, the Fed chairman has found himself under fire over elements of the central bank's extraordinary policy response to the financial crisis. Fearing heavy
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