Bernanke noted that financial markets remain under extreme strain and that the credit squeeze is a primary cause of the economic slowdown.

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The extreme weather has put an added strain on them.

BBC: Farmer Gareth Wyn Jones

Although nowadays associated with the generally hawkish Hoover Institution that he created at Stanford University, Hoover was the last elected president from the strain of the GOP now dubbed extreme.

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