The "Fed Express" would go on to win the next five titles at the prestigious grass-court major.

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With murmurs at the FOMC growing louder every time the Fed Chairman and his acolytes express support for ultra-loose monetary policy and continued quantitative easing, Ben Bernanke faced the Senate Banking Committee where he once again defended his tenure as central bank chief.

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He goes on express his dislike of being fed information about the room or its furniture by National Trust guides.

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The Fed continues to buy huge amounts of Treasury securities with the express purpose of holding down interest rates and inflating various asset prices.

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While others report divisions among the Fed officials on QE II, Fisher steered away from directly disputing the policy, although he did express discomfort over short-term interest rates of effectively zero.

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